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W. Park resident faces spy charges Baimadajie Angwang allegedly aided China

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ New York City Police Officer Baimadajie Angwang, a Williston Park resident, was arrested and charged with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China on Monday, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Angwang, 33, a native of Tibet, supplied information on Tibetans living in the United States to Chinese officials, according to a criminal complaint.

He was also charged with committing wire fraud, making false statements and obstructing an official proceeding, according to the Justice Department. He was ordered detained by U.S. Magistrate Roanne Mann in federal court in Brooklyn, according to Newsday.

Efforts to reach the court regarding Angwang’s court appearance were unavailing.

According to officials, Angwang can face up to 55 years’ imprisonment if found guilty.

Court documents showed

that Angwang told his official handler from China that he wanted to get promoted by the NYPD so he could bring “glory to China.”

FBI Special Agent Steven Deck outlined Angwang’s alleged actions in a criminal complaint that was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn.

Deck said Angwang “maintained a relationship” with at least two Chinese consulates since approximately 2018, according to court documents.

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Americana’s Toku has liquor license suspended State says upscale eatery violated COVID-19 regulations

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Former Chaminade point guard Michael O’Connell will be playing basketball at Stanford University.

to suspend the license of Toku Modern Asian at 2014C NorthAn Asian fusion restaurant ern Blvd. in Manhasset in a spein the Americana Manhasset cial meeting last week. The move had its liquor license suspended came following an investigation last week following violations at the restaurant on Sept. 11 by relating to COVID-19, accord- SLA and state police investigaing to the State Liquor Authority tors, according to a statement from Audrey Ruffinen, deputy (SLA).

The SLA’s three-person director of public affairs for the Board of Commissioners voted SLA, to Blank Slate Media.

“Investigators with the state’s multi-agency task force observed a long line of patrons not socially distanced waiting to enter the premises, with just a handful wearing face-masks,” Ruffinen said.

The investigators documented 118 patrons inside the premises, while Toku has a Continued on Page 51

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Nassau County resident ‘Bad Education’ files phase-in complaint wins Emmy Massapequa man outlines ‘flaws’ with reassessment

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Nassau County resident Sean McCarthy filed a complaint outlining alleged flaws in the county’s Reassessment Phase-In Act.

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Another Nassau County resident has filed a complaint challenging the constitutionality of the county’s property tax reassessment.

According to court documents, Massapequa resident Sean McCarthy claims the Reassessment Phase-In Act of 2020, which phased in increases and decreases in taxes over five years, violates “equal protection and due process” and is seeking a permanent injunction to prohibit the county from collecting or levying taxes on real property based on the assessments.

The county, its Department of Assessment, the Assessment Review Commission, County Executive Laura Curran, County Assessor David Moog, the Town of Oyster Bay and the Plainedge Union Free School District are all listed as defendants in the case, which was filed in late July.

Efforts to reach the parties in the case for comment were unavailing.

In his complaint, McCarthy lists four residential properties in Massapequa, including his own, where properties with lower assessed values are taxed higher than other Class 1 properties in the same town and school district.

McCarthy compared his property to one of his immediate neighbors. Under the 2018-19 reassessment plan, the purpose of which was to equalize the tax burden among similarly situated properties, the two properties would share a proportionately similar tax burden.

The lot size of both properties is the same, both homes were built in 2017, and the floor area differs by less than 200 square feet. The equalized 2020-21 tax burden without the phase-in differed by less than $500 for the properties.

With the phase-in, McCarthy’s property now faces a $36,870 tax burden, compared with $22,986

without it. His neighbor’s property saw a $2,000 increase in tax burden with the phase-in.

McCarthy called the results from the phase-in “absurd, nonsensical, and grossly disproportionate tax burdens.”

Moog finalized and published the 2020-2021 assessment roll in April, the final step in completing the first countywide property assessment in almost a decade.

“While the health and safety of Nassau’s 1.4 million residents and our employees is always my top priority – now more than ever – I remain committed to fulfilling my promise of fixing the broken system that had half of property owners overpaying in taxes,” Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said in April.

Included are the final determinations, provided by the Assessment Review Commission, on grievances filed after the reassessment on the county’s tentative assessment roll, officials said.

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“Bad Education,” the film based on the embezzlement scandal that plagued the Roslyn school district in the early 2000s, was named the best television movie or miniseries of the 2019-20 television season at the Creative Arts Emmys Awards on Saturday night.

The film won over four Netflix productions: “American Son,” “Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings: These Old Bones,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. The Reverend,” and “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.”

Writer, producer and Roslyn alumnus Mike Makowsky is listed as a recipient of the award, and in a statement to Blank Slate Media referred to a tweet he had written on the win.

“My teachers at Roslyn were the first adults to encourage me to pursue creative writing,” Makowsky said. “Years later they were my primary sources and first readers on the Bad Education script.

They deserve all the thanks I can give (and they *probably* deserved a better title for the movie too).”

The film, which premiered on pay-cable network HBO on April 25 following a successful run at the Toronto International Film Festival, is based on Frank Tassone, who

headed the Roslyn school district for 12 years, beginning in 1990, and took it to a ranking of No. 4 in the country.

After the quiet dismissal of Assistant Superintendent Pamela Gluckin, played in the movie by Allison Janney, a story on the dismissal was written by then-senior Rebekah Rombom and published in the school newspaper The Hilltop Beacon, leading to parents finding out and Tassone’s subsequent resignation in June 2002. Rombom was thanked in the film’s credits, and the role inspired by her was played by actress Geraldine Viswanathan.

Both Tassone and Gluckin pleaded guilty to larceny charges and served prison sentences. Tassone said after the film premiered on TV that he had repaid the $2.2 million he owed. HBO later said that Gluckin died in 2017.

Tassone was critical of the film when it premiered, contending that “about 40 to 50 percent” of the movie was accurate but praising Hugh Jackman for his performance, saying he did “a very good job portraying me.”

For his role as Tassone, Jackman was nominated for outstanding lead actor in a limited series or movie, but lost to Mark Ruffalo from HBO’s “I Know This Much Is True.”

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“Bad Education,” the film based on the 2004 embezzlement scandal in the Roslyn school district, won best television movie at the Emmy Awards on Saturday, with Roslyn native Mike Makowsky listed among the recipients.

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Beat goes on for Hannah Kroner

Dance school reopens in new location, under new management, COVID-19 restrictions

BY E LL I OT W E L D After closing its in-person classes due to the pandemic in March, Hannah Kroner School of Dance reopened for classes Monday in a new location and with protocols in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The school’s new location, at 872 Willis Ave. in Albertson, is just a few blocks away from its previous location, which it occupied for the last 24 years.

On top of the new building, Carol Riley, who has owned the school for the last 38 years, is passing the torch to two former students of the school. Paige Ketsoglou and Danielle Kenouryiakis both got their start in dance at the school under its founder, Hannah Kroner.

“Right now everybody is looking for something new,” Ketsoglou said on the reasons for moving to a new space. The rooms, she said, are wider and will be able to fit more students, and they are a different shape, more conducive to physical distancing.

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Hannah Kroner School of Dance’s new location at 872 Willis Ave. in Albertson. arate classes over Zoom, as it has since the pandemic began, for those who are not comfortable coming into the school yet.

Students will have to fill out a screening questionnaire before they arrive at the school and have their temperatures taken.

All surfaces and equipment will

be sanitized between each class and all in the room will be wearing masks.

Ketsoglou said some students need human contact and a time to socialize in an age when most social gatherings are banned.

Riley said the pandemic did

affect the school’s business because when classes were canceled, not all students wanted to participate in classes over Zoom.

Along with being a teacher at Kroner, Ketsoglou has taught at a number of other dance studios in the area, including Broadway Dance Center in New

York City, and she founded the Kardia Dance Company. She has a degree in dance from Long Island University Post.

Kenouryiakis studied at the Professional Performing Arts School in New York City and has a bachelor’s in drama, theater and dance from Queens College.

She has performed with Awakenings Theater Dance Troupe and has done choreography for off-off-Broadway musicals.

The school was founded 74 years ago by Hannah Kroner and has been in Albertson for the last 44 years.

“Everyone knows of our school,” Riley said, remarking on the generations of families who have come back to the school over the years. She added that the school has had students as young as toddlers and as old as their late 80s and that it is unique in that it offers classes for students with special needs.

Ketsoglou said the school participates in dance competitions but also offers recreational level classes for those who are not comfortable competing.

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New owners, new plan for Coliseum

Owners of Islanders, Oak View Group eye limiting facility to hosting music events

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z The future of the Nassau Coliseum could be limited to hosting music events in efforts to downsize the facility, according to a Newsday report.

The owners of the New York Islanders are reportedly partnering with Oak View Group to downsize the Coliseum and turn it into a venue exclusively for music events once the Islanders move into the newly named UBS Arena in Belmont next year.

The Coliseum, known for hosting hockey games, concerts, circus shows and other entertainment events, shut its doors in mid-June due to the increased amount of debt accrued over the past five years.

Tim Leiweke, chief executive officer of Oak View Group, told Newsday that the partnership between his California-based company and the New York Arena Partners would provide neighboring venues with “synergy” in marketing, sales and bookings.

“Our concept is, what if we create one of the best and busiest music theaters in all of the country?” Leiweke told Newsday. “It is the hole in the marketplace on Long Island and we see it could become a complement to Radio City Music Hall.”

The Coliseum’s new leaseholder, Nick

control of the Coliseum as its new tenant.

Officials said the agreement with Mastroianni will allow the county to recoup the unpaid rent accrued over the past several years by the Coliseum’s former leaseholder, Mikhail Prokhorov. Prokhorov, a Russian billionaire and owner of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, accrued more than $2 million of unpaid rent owed by his Nassau Events Center LLC. The county issued a notice of default to Nassau Events Center LLC and its parent company, Onexim Sports and Entertainment Holdings, in mid-July to pay off $2 million in payments for the Coliseum and a surrounding 72 acres of land known as the Nassau Hub. Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said both parties were on a “fast track PHOTO COURTESY OF GOOGLE MAPS solution” to keep the Coliseum’s doors open for future events.

A new proposal calls for the Nassau Coliseum to be transformed into a “This deal follows rigorous negotiations and fulfills my main objectives – place strictly used for music events, according to Newsday. forging a path forward for sustained ColiMastroianni II, declined to comment to posal further were unavailing. seum operations and keeping us on track According to Newsday, any change to redevelop the Nassau Hub,” Curran Newsday about Oak View Group’s proposal for downsizing the venue, but said, that comes to the lease after an operator said in a statement. “We are pleased to “We are getting our arms around every- is chosen will require approval from the have ensured a swift transfer of the lease thing so we have a full understanding of County Legislature. to a new tenant eager to resume Coliseum Nassau County officials announced operations and partner with us on Hub rethe operations.”

Efforts to reach Leiweke, Mastroianni in late August that a deal was struck with development.” or other officials to comment on the pro- Nassau Live Center LLC to take immediate Continued on Page 51

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Tributes for Ruth Bader Ginsburg County officials remember Supreme Court justice for work on bench, as women’s activist

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Following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, officials across Nassau County and New York state issued statements testifying to her legacy and body of work.

A native of Brooklyn who grew up in Flatbush, Ginsburg completed undergraduate studies at Cornell University and graduated from Columbia University Law School.

She died last Friday at 87.

After decades working against gender discrimination with the American Civil Liberties Union, serving as a law professor and holding a federal judgeship, she was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1993 by thenPresident Bill Clinton and was sworn in later that year.

Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas said in a statement the morning after Ginsburg’s death that “the cause of justice lost a champion.”

“Justice Ruth Ginsburg inspired generations of women to enter the law, and her legacy will be celebrated for generations to come,” Singas said. “[She] was a personal heroine of mine for her tenacity, resolve, and her unwavering ethical compass. She overcame misogyny and anti-Semitism to serve with distinction on America’s highest court as a clarion voice for the vulnerable and oppressed. My heart is with her family, friends, clerks, staff, and the millions she inspired in

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Local officials are remembering the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday. her life and work.”

State Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-Great Neck) wrote on Twitter that the “nation mourns the loss of a true giant.”

“Tonight we say goodbye to one of the greatest Americans of our time, Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” Kaplan said. “She paved the way for generations of women to pursue their dreams, and her legacy will endure as an inspiration for us all. Thank you, RBG.” U.S. Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) and Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City) were also

among those who spoke on the late justice.

“Our nation has lost a giant,” Suozzi wrote on Twitter. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a ferocious champion of women’s equality and civil rights. Her legacy will serve as an inspiration for generations of Americans to come. Rest In Peace, good and faithful servant.”

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves behind an unmatched legacy as one of the most important forces for women’s rights in modern-day history,” Rice said in a statement. “She paved the way for women everywhere and she continued fighting, even until her last day.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced plans to memorialize Ginsburg with a statue in Brooklyn, and ordered that certain state landmarks be lit in blue in her honor last Saturday.

“New York’s heart breaks with the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” Cuomo said in a statement. “She was a daughter of Brooklyn and the embodiment of all that it means to be New York tough — yet her life was a testament that tough does not preclude acting with respect, grace, and dignity.

I know I speak for the entire family of New York when I say we are absolutely devastated by this loss. As an advocate, litigator, professor, and judge, Justice Ginsburg was an unparalleled voice for our better angels and a singular force for equality and justice throughout her extraordinary career. In an era when women like her were asked why

they were ‘taking the place of a man,’ she fought tirelessly to ensure our country lived up to its founding ideals, especially for all those marginalized by the status quo — from women and communities of color to the disabled and the LGBTQ community.”

Plans call for Ginsburg’s body to lie in repose at the Supreme Court building for two days and then lie in state for a full day in the Capitol, the first woman and the first person of the Jewish faith to be accorded the honor.

Ginsburg will be buried in Arlington National Cemetary next to her husband, Martin D. Ginsburg, a tax lawyer and native of Rockville Centre who predeceased her in 2010 after 56 years of marriage.

Ginsburg is survived by her two children, Cedille Records president James Steven Ginsburg and Columbia Law School professor Jane C. Ginsburg, and four grandchildren.

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Curran proposes $3.3B budget Calls for refinancing hundreds of millions in debt, tens of millions in spending cuts

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ

Refinancing hundreds of millions of dollars of debt and proposing tens of millions of dollars in spending cuts are key elements of the $3.3 billion budget proposed for Nassau County in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The proposed budget was introduced by Nassau County Executive Laura Curran last Wednesday.

The budget is a decrease from the $3.55 billion spending plan approved for 2020, according to county officials.

The budget calls for the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, which has overseen the county’s finances for the past two decades, to restructure $360 million in debt from the county and the finance authority, according to a county news release.

Curran said the uncertainty that has lingered throughout the year due to the pandemic was the reason for the proposed restructuring of debt.

“Restructuring bonds would not be necessary or justifiable in an ordinary year. Extraordinary times

fund balance, $103 million in funding from the federal CARES Act, $75 million from the finance authority’s debt extension, $38 million in funds to financially support litigation and workers’ compensation expenses, $32 million from completed or abandoned capital projects and $25 million in expense controls.

“The pandemic has plunged Nassau and other local economies into a steep and unprecedented financial crisis, and my budget reflects this emergency,” Curran said.

“With shared commitment and the resilient spirit Nassau residents have demonstrated throughout this crisis, I’m confident we’ll emerge PHOTO COURTESY OF THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE’S OFFICE stronger in the years ahead.”

Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park), presiding officer of the Nassau County Executive Laura Curran proposed a $3.3 bilCounty Legislature, told Newsday lion budget for the county in 2021. the Republican majority “will conas these, however, call for this ex- 2021 and $150 million in 2022 by duct a thorough review and analysis of the County Executive’s budget traordinary, yet targeted and appro- refinancing the debt.

Despite the county facing a to ensure it is fiscally responsible priate, measures,” Curran said.

Of the debt, $240 million 2020 midyear deficit of $385 mil- and does not put additional burcomes from finance authority lion due to the pandemic, county dens on Nassau taxpayers already bonds while the remaining $120 officials anticipate that Nassau will struggling with the financial impact million comes from county bonds. end the year “in budgetary bal- of COVID-19.”

The Republican legislative maThe county, according to the news ance.” The gap closing plan comrelease, will save $285 million in bines the use of $112 million of jority subpoenaed Curran’s admin-

istration in early August to analyze her plan to use the Nassau Interim Finance Authority to combat the looming debt the county faces due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Nicolello signed the three subpoenas, which sought financial statements from the county’s budget director, Raymond Orlando, and county consultants Public Financial Management.

According to officials, Curran discussed the plan with leaders from the majority and minority caucuses in the Legislature and hopes to continue to have more indepth briefings so the county can deal with the financial crisis in the most effective way.

According to officials, the county was projected to suffer a $749 million deficit in 2020 and 2021.

Officials said Nassau will also save nearly $70 million by eliminating 329 vacant county positions.

Other savings outlined by the county include $16.7 million from a contract with the NICE bus service, $12.8 million in public safety overtime and $5.8 million in Medicaid due to additional federal funding.

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Jojo returns to Roslyn with a gallery Pop-up location to feature work of artist termed Andy Warhol of the Snapchat generation

BY R O S E W E L D ON He’s been called the “Andy Warhol of the Snapchat generation,” but mixed media contemporary artist and area native Joseph “Jojo” Anavim says he’s loath to accept most praise, or even call himself a pop artist.

“I am by nature a very humble person, meaning anytime I’m receiving praise, I just always kind of put my head down,” Anavim said in a recent interview. “And I think to myself that deep down, maybe I don’t deserve this.”

“This” would include selling his art for as much as $60,000; a litany of celebrity clients, including basketball players Amar’e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony, singer/actress Selena Gomez and financial heavy-hitters Sheldon Adelson and Daymond John; being the subject of two New York Times profiles and a short documentary by the New York Knicks; and having his work featured in his beloved Madison Square Garden, among other things.

Now, the artist is coming home, and for a few months will be exhibiting his art in a pop-up gallery on Old Northern Boule-

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Flower Hill native and mixed media artist Jojo Anavim in his pop-up gallery on Old Northern Boulevard in the Village of Roslyn. vard, not far from where he grew up in the Roslyn section of the Village of Flower Hill.

The son of Persian Jewish immigrants who came to Long

Island in the late 1970s, Anavim says his roots as an artist began with him doodling in between the lines of his notebooks while in third, fourth, and fifth grade in

the Roslyn school district in the 1990s. He then enrolled in a cartooning class at the Sid Jacobson JCC in East Hills taught by Disney animator Al Baruch, best known for his work on “Peter Pan” and “Lady & the Tramp.”

“On top of that, my parents had gotten me an Apple computer that through some bizarre promotion at the time, had Photoshop pre-installed on it,” Anavim said. “It was a very rare thing, I’ve come to find out, it was only like 1,000 computers. So just the odds of that are just so crazy.

So I was toying with digital photo manipulation and photoshopping my friends and into very compromising situations, but we would all get a good laugh out of that.”

The combination of the training and the laptop would blend “in a very impressionable stage of my life,” Anavim says, but that still didn’t mean he would consider it as a career.

“For a while, it was just a hobby and no one ever said, ‘Oh, this is a good career option for you,'” Anavim said. “In fact, they were like, ‘Why would you ever do this? It’s the dumbest thing.'”

Taking a perceived practi-

cal route after his 2002 graduation from Roslyn High School (he says his only A+ came from a graphic design class), Anavim studied business at Hofstra University for a year until moving to Hunter College in Manhattan, graduating with a degree in psychology in 2006. He began working as a graphic designer, creating billboards for companies like Sephora and W Hotels, and album art for Universal Music Group’s recording artists, as well as art for numerous advertising campaigns.

“I had some great clients and I was doing really fun, large scale national projects,” Anavim said.

“And then that kind of just naturally progressed into what I’m doing now.”

The influences from his graphic design days were carried over into his current works, he says.

“You’re working with color palettes, you’re working with typography, you’re working with different layers of images,” Anavim said. “It’s just that one is more executed by hand, and one is on more of a digital platform.”

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Port resident to moderate talk with Fauci

BY R O S E W E L D ON A Port Washington resident who founded a group for survivors of COVID-19 will moderate a conversation with White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci next week as part of its COVID-19 webinar series.

Photographer Diana Zicklin Berrent founded the Survivor Corps shortly after she became one of the first in the Port Washington area to test positive for coronavirus, as a group to organize and promote resources for those suffering from and surviving COVID-19.

Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who has frequently been interviewed by the media since the outbreak came to the United States in March, will take questions moderated by Berrent, who encourages interested parties to email them in advance.

She also requests that the inPHOTOS COURTESY OF SURVIVOR CORPS AND WIKIMEDIA COMMONS quiries “be limited to plasma, the support of science, and the adPort Washington resident and Survivor Corps founder Diana Zicklin Berrent, left, will be vocacy for” COVID-19 survivors, moderating a discussion with White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony and will not take media questions.

Fauci, right, online on Oct. 2.

The discussion will be filmed on

Friday, Oct. 2, and posted online later that day.

Berrent said in an interview that she had requested a meeting with Fauci by “putting a request in to the press office” at the National Institutes of Health.

“It was unbelievable, but we got a confirmation by the next morning,” Berrent said.

She added that the interview will be one of the first times where Fauci will discuss the effects of COVID-19 “long-haulers.”

“This will be the first time that he’s been asked to speak to the long-term effects in any depth, so that should really be interesting,” Berrent said.

Among Survivor Corps’ efforts are organizing efforts for survivors to donate blood and plasma for research studies, listing recovery centers for once the virus runs its course, and collecting news on treatment for those still suffering.

The webinar will be posted to survivorcorps.com/webinars, on Oct. 2 at an unspecified time in the afternoon. Questions can be submitted by email at hq@survivorcorps.com before the day.

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Happening at the Williston Park Library Carl DelVecchio Memorial Library www.willistonparklibrary.org By: Donna McKenna, Director E-mail: wppubliclibrary@ gmail. com Beginning Monday, Sept.

21, two public computers will be available for use, by appointment for a 30-minute limit.Limited, socially distant seating will also be available. Saturday hours will resume on Sept. 26.

Please refer to our website willistonparklibrary.org for upcoming virtual programs.

Our New Daily Hours Are:

Open for Browsing: MondayFriday: 10 am-5:30 pmVestibule Pick-Up: Monday-Friday: 10 am5:30 pmBrowsing & Vestibule Pickup: Saturday: 10 am-4 pm “Open for Browsing” means you can come inside, walk around the Library, and look for books and other items. Please limit your time to 30 minutes.

Only one family at a time will be permitted in the Children’s Room.

Items requested over the phone can be picked up in the Library vestibule.

Please maintain social dis-

tancing practices while in the Library. You will notice markers at the Circulation and Reference Desks and directional markers on our floors.

All customers and staff are required to wear face coverings at all times while in the Library, per Executive Order 202.17. Face coverings must cover both your mouth and nose.

Congregating is not permitted.

Please return items in the outside book drops. For safety reasons, we cannot accept items returned inside the Library!

The computer center and OPAC are unavailable until further notice.Newspapers are unavailable until further notice.

Thank you for cooperating with the guidelines we have in place to keep us all safe.

Adult Programs Medicare Made Clear—Tuesday—September 22—10:30-11 am via Zoom. Registration required at willistonpr@yahoo. com. Link will be emailed upon registration.

Adult Book Discussion— September 30—7 pm via Zoom – Beartown by Fredrik

Backman – Copies are available at the Circulation Desk. https://adelphiuniversity.zoom. us/j/96944382963…Or go to zoom.us and click join meeting and enter this:Meeting ID: 969 4438 2963Password: WPBookSept Breast Cancer Education: Early Detection Saves Lives.October 7—11am—Free Virtual Workshop via GoToMeetingwith Maura A Calio, MA, RN, Community Health Educator, St. Francis HospitalRegistration required at willistonpr@yahoo.comUpon registration link will be emailed.

Water main flushing in Williston Park Please be advised that the required annual water main flushing is scheduled for Monday through Friday, Sept. 28 –

Oct. 2 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 2 a.m.

During the flushing period, you may detect some water

pressure fluctuation and water discoloration. Please plan on washing your dishes and clothes after the daily flushing.

You may wish to keep a supply of clear water in the refrigerator for drinking and cooking during these times of discolor-

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We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

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E.W. ed board honors 3 Wheatley seniors On Monday, Sept. 21, the East Williston’s Board of Education honored three Wheatley seniors, Anya Chabria, Layla Jarrahy and Victor Li for their recent achievements in two national competitions.

Anya Chabria and Layla Jarrahy were named Semifinalists in the 2020 National Merit

Scholarship Program while Victor Li was recognized as a Finalist in the 18th Annual USA Biolympiad National Finals.

As semifinalists in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program, both Anya and Layla scored in the top 1 percent of more than 1.5 million juniors in more than 21,000 high schools

who entered the program by taking the PSAT last year.

These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $30 million that will be offered next spring. To be considered for a Merit Scholar-

ship award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition.

As a finalist in the 18th Annual USA Biolympiad National Finals, Victor was among 20 finalists nationwide who competed virtually, this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, out of

10,000 students who registered to compete. This high-level science competition consisted of ten days of biology instruction followed by two days of testing.

Congratulations to these three Wheatley seniors who exemplify dedication to learning and leading among their peers.

(Left to Right): Front row: Victor Li, Anya Chabria and Layla Jarrahy. Back row: Mark Kamberg (board president), Leonard Hirsch (trustee), Robert Fallarino (board vice president), David Keefe (trustee), Tasneem Meghji (trustee) and Elaine Kanas (superintendent of schools).

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OUR VIEWS

Sadly, hate is all around us

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he heading on the letter submitted to us by the 40 leaders of parent-teacher organizations in Great Neck said “Parent leaders confirm Great Neck is ‘no place for hate.'”

The letter itself said the leaders had learned of “numerous anti-Asian incidents” that began in January and have continued in recent weeks.

“In all cases, racial slurs and hateful comments, most centering around the pandemic, have been directed at young, defenseless children ranging from elementary to high school age,” the letter continued. “These incidents have included asking our youngest students if they eat bats to calling them Covid-19 spreaders, with some even getting physically abused.”

All the incidents took place off school grounds, according to the school board.

We don’t know whether the comments and assaults came from children or adults. But so what?

If it did come from other children engaged in school-yard talk, where exactly did those children get the idea to say those things?

To their credit, the 40 or so letter-signers said they had banded together to condemn hate speech as well as negative stereotypes.

But the sad truth is that their claim that Great Neck is no place for hate is merely aspirational. In reality, Great Neck, like the rest of America, is a place in which hate is on the rise.

This is not to diminish or discourage what the 40 letter-signers are attempting to do. In fact, they are performing a needed service and should be commended for their work. They should get all our help.

But the truth is that they face a major obstacle until at least Elec-

tion Day and probably long beyond.

And yes, we are talking about a re-election campaign by President Donald Trump based on what could be called stirring racial animus but is more honestly outright racism.

It is surely no coincidence that the anti-Asian incidents in Great Neck and across the country arrived in February when COVID-19 struck this country.Yes, the infection originated in China, probably spread by bat-to-human contact.

But, again, so what?

The United States has never been blamed for the Spanish flu, which infected 500 million people between 1918 and 1920 – about a third of the world’s population at the time – in four successive waves. The death toll of the Spanish flu is estimated to have been somewhere between 17 million and 50 million. It is believed to have started in Kansas.

And yes, the Chinese government did at first hide the disease from the rest of the world.

But American intelligence and Trump knew as early as January that the disease was deadly and heading our way, according to tapes of 18 interviews with the presidentreleased by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward.

But instead of alerting the American public and mobilizing a national effort, Trump downplayed the threat the COVID-19 presented to the country and failed to mobilize a national response.

Then, after first complimenting Chinese President Xi Jinping for his handling of the virus, Trump began calling the COVID-19 the China flu and blaming the Chinese along with a wide array of other villains.

The death toll passed 200,000

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on Tuesday – nearly one-fifth of the total deaths in the world – with the number of Americans infected nearing seven million.

Yes, this is not the first time this country has experienced hatred directed at Asians. They, like virtually every ethnic, racial and religious group, have experienced hateful comments, physical abuse and even murder.

The rounding up and internment of Japanese-Americans in camps during World War II remains a stain on this country. Recall that no similar action was taken against German-Americans and Italian-Americans, whose homelands we were also at war with.

But this is the first time since Gov. George Wallace ran for president as a Democrat segregationist that the appeals have been as explicit as they are in Trump’s campaign.

So, as the Great Neck parents said, a bunch of young and defenseless children are subjected to name-calling and violence.

Sadly, the Asian children are not by any stretch of the imagination alone.

Trump’s rise in the Republican Party began with birtherism, the false claim that President Barack Obama, the country’s first Black president, was not born in the United States and therefore was not a true American eligible to

serve as commander-in-chief.

Remember, Trump kicked off his political campaign in 2015 by calling Mexicans drug dealers, criminals and rapists, followed by a call to ban Muslims from entering the country. He said white supremacists and neo-Nazis and protesters who opposed them in Charlottesville included good people on both sides. He called Black Lives Matters marchers protesting police brutality terrorists and defended statues of Confederate soldiers who waged war against the United States.

The list goes on. And on. And on.

Trump has used the country’s bully pulpit and compliant media outlets to spread this message of hate across the country.

To be clear, we are not saying that the 40 percent or so of the electorate who still support Trump are all racists. Just that Trump’s racism is not a deal-breaker for them.

FBI Director Christopher Wray, who was appointed by Trump, testified last Friday that “racially motivated violent extremism,” mostly from white supremacists, has in recent years made up a majority of domestic terrorism threats in this country.

But Trump is not alone in stirring up divisiveness.

Wray said that an effort has

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been joined by Russia to “both sow divisiveness and discord, and I think the intelligence community has assessed this publicly, to primarily denigrate Vice President Biden in what the Russians see as a kind of an anti-Russian establishment.”

All these efforts to divide Americans are aided by new and powerful weapons for those seeking to spread hate – social media.

Trump’s Twitter feed has allowed him to spread his message, unfiltered by anyone, to tens of millions of people.

Worse though is Facebook. It has been used across the globe to incite hatred and genocidal violence by authoritarian countries and hate groups – while its owners reap billions in profits.

In the United States, Facebook has been the chief means to grow support for QAnon, a conspiracy theory in which Trump struggles against a cabal of Satan-worshiping, life-force sucking pedophiles and their enablers, including many of his Democratic opponents.

What to do?

We must first recognize the scope of this campaign to divide us by race, religion and country of origin and then combat this bigotry wherever we find it – whether on the streets of Great Neck or in the White House.

And then we must vote.

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ON THE RIGHT

With Dems in control the tax man cometh

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he federal government’s budget deficit is hitting all-time highs and New York’s 2020-2021 state and local government budget deficits are mushrooming.

And if Joe Biden wins in November, his new spending proposals will exceed $5.4 trillion over ten years.

Where will all the money come from to plug budget gaps and to fund new spending?

Tax hikes.

Biden has already proposed raising the top income tax bracket on people earning over four hundred thousand annually to 39.6 percent. The capital gains rate will jump from 23.8 percent to 39.6 percent and corporate taxes will go from 21 percent to 28 percent.

However, if the Democrats win control of the White House and both branches of the Congress, don’t expect the radicals to be satisfied with Biden’s plan. My guess is they will insist that rates for income taxes and capital gains hit at least 45%. As for the corporate tax rate, they will probably push it to 35%, the rate during the

Obama years.

In New York, Gov. Cuomo has been lobbying for $59 billion from Washington to close the fiscal gaps for the state, the MTA, and local municipalities.

But even if he gets that money from a Biden administration, it’s only a one-shot revenue. It does not fix the structural deficit caused by Cuomo’s shutdown of the New York economy.

Tens of thousands of small businesses and restaurants that will never reopen and the exodus of the state’s top earners will have long-term effects on tax revenue streams.

While Governor Cuomo understands that increasing taxes will not be enough to cover the projected deficits, his message is failing to register with the Democratic-controlled state Legislature.

Those Democrats are calling for the rate on millionaires, which is presently 8.82%, to be increased to 9.6 percent for those making over $5 million annually, and for those earning over $100 million, 11.85 percent.

The most ridiculous pro-

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right posal is a tax on unrealized capital gains of equity holdings of billionaires.

If enacted, people would have to pay a tax on a stock that has appreciated in value even though the owner has not sold the investment and taken again.

Here’s how that would work: An investor buys a stock on January 1 for $5 a share, that at year-end is valued at $8 a share. The owner would have to pay a tax on the $3 appreciation.

But, say in March of the next year the investment goes south and the investor sells it

for $2 a share. The owner not only takes a 60 percent loss on the investment but is stuck paying an unrealized capital gain tax on April 15 on the losing stock that the investor no longer owns.

Sound crazy? It is.

A tax on unrealized gains, by its very nature, is ludicrous.

As for local governments, an important source of income—sales tax collections— continues to decline. In August, it was off 7.8 percent statewide compared to a year ago, and in July it was down 8.2 percent. In Nassau, sales tax revenues, this year, have been down 10.5 percent.

To fill the 2020 deficit hole, Nassau might be able to issue debt through the Nassau Interim Finance Authority. But that, too, is only a one-shot.

Other municipalities may go to Albany and beg for the authority to issue deficit debt.

That remedy, however, only kicks the fiscal can down the road. It sticks future generations—the children and grandchildren of today’s taxpayers—with the bill for this year’s spending.

Unless elected officials at every level of government agree to do more with less, and address the skyrocketing costs of entitlement and pension programs, every form of taxation will have to be increased.

And considering that over 400 thousand have fled New York this year, raising taxes will only exacerbate the situation.

E.J. McMahon, a senior fellow at the Empire Center for Public Policy agrees. “State lawmakers,” he observed, “now clamoring to jack up state and city tax rates on millionaires insist the targeted taxpayers won’t mind—and won’t respond by simply moving. But the new IRS data add to the body of circumstantial evidence pointing to an increased outflow of high earners from New York even before the pandemic.”

With federal, state and local taxes poised to go up, it should come as no surprise if the most robust corporate sector in New York is the moving van industry.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

It’s all a matter of perspective viewing photos

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s far as I am concerned, there are two kinds of picture-takers in the world: those who take pictures of scenery and those who take them of people. (I don’t count “selfies” as pictures at all; they’re just crystallized ego, and as such more a matter for psychologists to study than for me.)

I started out as a fan of scenery. Wherever I went, I didn’t care what I or anyone else looked like. I wanted pictures to remind me of what I had seen, what I had experienced, where I had been.

My mother, however, was — and still is — profoundly bored by any picture without people in it. “See one hillside of azaleas blooming in the spring, and you’ve seen them all” could be her motto. But she loved my father, and he loved toting us to the same hillside every spring, posing us in front of the flowerscape, and using up a whole roll of film.

When I got my own first camera (a Kodak Instamatic that proved well-nigh indestructible), I went crazy, snapping photos of everything I saw: the mountain that towered over my summer camp; the river that ran nearby; every marble-columned building on the Federal Triangle (illustrating a project on Doric vs. Ionic vs. Corinthian columns); even lying on my stomach in a field to capture how an abandoned barn looked from between tall stalks of grass.

When I was older and traveled abroad, I tried to capture every gargoyle on every cathedral in France; every boxwood hedge in the gardens at Versailles. In England, I tried to photograph the doorways. In Japan, I wanted to capture the somehow foreign look of everything, right down to the oddly delicate thorn bushes growing beside the railroad tracks.

Of course, there were some occasions when I took pictures of family members. For example,

JUDY EPSTEIN

A Look on the Lighter Side on one of our family trips to my grandparents in New York, I managed to snap one of the very few photos in which my grandmother is actually smiling! But all I have, of her and my grandfather is the two of them from the neck up. The rest of the photo contains the painted seascape that was hanging behind them over their sofa. All of it. Apparently, rather than cut that in half, I chose to cut my own grandpar-

ents off at the neck!

You could say that I hadn’t yet grasped what you might call “priorities.” Or maybe what I mean is “perspective.”

Again: on a family trip to Antietam Battlefield in Maryland — site of the single bloodiest day of the Civil War — I posed my family at the base of a very tall column which featured, I think, an angel at the top. I then walked backward down the hill and across two fields, until I could fit all of the monument into the picture. Of course, this meant that my family were reduced to little dots at the foot of the structure.

Somehow that didn’t bother me.

Even as an adult, I apparently did so much walking-backward-to-fit-everything-in that when my fiancé and I went camera shopping, for our first big trip together, the fiancé revealed that he’d been given two vital pieces of advice by my previous boyfriend.

“Be sure you buy something with a wide-angle lens,” he had

been advised, “or you’ll find yourself walking backward all across Europe.”

“What was the other piece of advice?” I wanted to know.

“Oh, well. That. It’s not important.”

“TELL ME!” “He just mentioned that if I valued my own skin, I’d better never be without some kind of snack in my pocket…for when you start behaving like you did just now.”

“Oh, so you have a snack in that pocket?”

“Not any more,” he said, as I snagged it and finished it in two bites.

Now that I have all the time in the world — and no place to go — I am sitting and studying my old photos from everywhere.

And I can see something now that was never apparent before.

I can see that the ones without people in them are…well… boring. Turns out my mother’s been right all along!

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New game of golf threatens Winged Foot

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he world may be in perpetual pause but not so for golf, especially major golf.

Despite the lack of crowd roars, the USGA managed to serve up a narrative unlike any seen in recent history. This weekend we had the year’s most important major, the U.S. Open, being played at historic Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y., and like a script right out of central casting we had a chance to watch two players who could not have been more opposite in style of play or in demeanor.

On stage right enters Patrick Reed, who has been variously referred to as “Houdini,” “The Natural,” “Captain America” and “the Magician.” Leading golf gurus refer to his swing as having the best

transition in the game and those in the know watch him carefully as he warms up on the range, hoping to pick up a little magic. He is called “The Natural” because his swing looks anything but manufactured.

He is said to possess the best pair of hands in golf. He is called “Captain America” because like a true American he is independent, thrives under pressure and has a down-toearth, no-nonsense approach to the game. He is called “The Magician” because no matter what kind of lie he has in the rough he can get up and down from any spot he is in.

And who should enter on stage left but golf’s newest boy wonder, Bryson James Aldrich DeChambeau. DeChambeau is the ultimate science guy, applying a variety

“What happens to golf when the great courses become obsolete?”

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of analytics to help improve his game. He employs every means of technology, including biomechanical experts to understand optimal swing speeds and dietary and medical experts in order to transform his body from a tall slender man into a version of hulk. Golf has never seen the likes of this kind of muscle. He makes the fitness fanaticism of Tiger Woods look like the laziness of a couch potato.

As the week unfolded and Saturday rolled around, the head-tohead battle between Patrick ”The Natural” Reed vs. Bryson “The Machine” DeChambeau” came to a head as DeChambeau began to make an embarrassment of famed Winged Foot. DeChambeau’s strategy was to power over every bunker and tree on the grounds in order to have baby flip wedges into short par fours.

DeChambeau’s unique strat-

egy paid off in the end and he went on to dominate the course and the field and won by 6. True there were no adoring fans to applaud him, but that may be for the best. How could a crowd manage to avoid being smacked in the head by one of his missiles falling from the heavens.

There were no cheers created

by DeChambeau, but in the place of applause came the ultimate black swan event for professional golf.

And this DeChambeau crisis was both predictable and problematic.

Way back in 1904 Henry Adams wrote the famous essay “A Law of Acceleration” in which he said that the increasingly rapid growth in technology and in mechanical advances coupled with human ingenuity was like a speeding comet which could not be stopped and which humans could not escape from riding on. And this is just what we see in this U.S. Open and Winged Foot.

By employing every possible means of technology to improve, DeChambeau has managed to single-handedly create a crisis for golf.

The simple fact is that these famous golf courses are set in nature and no matter how the USGA tries to modify or toughen up things, the course is the course is the course.

The great courses in the world were designed more than 100 years ago and they largely remain the way they were first designed. And if you

think you can do much to improve upon their design, that’s like saying “Well, the Mona Lisa seems kind of outdated so let’s bring in a new painter and spruce her up a bit.”

Ugh! Bryson Aldrich DeChambeau has escalated a crisis that has been many years in the making. Technological improvements in equipment coupled with analytics, fitness and diet have threatened the way golf is played on the best courses in the world. Thus the USGA has a big crisis on its hands.

For too long the world of golf liked to scapegoat Patrick Reed for being too brash, too funny with his shushing gestures and too independent. But seemingly overnight golf has found itself with another bad boy or should I say “Big Boy.” And this “Big Boy” has just presented the world of golf with a crisis that is not going away. As Henry Adam said over 100 years ago, we cannot stop progress from speeding along.

And no one is going to be able to slow down DeChambeau’s club head speed either.

So now the powers that be must hunker down and try to figure out what to do about all this and if they don’t, not only will the character of the game be destroyed but so will the priceless playing fields such as Winged Foot, Shinnecock Hills and Augusta National.

And that scenario is a nasty one to entertain.

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Our food footprint and where it leads

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e thrive only when the natural world thrives; when humans respect nature for all its beauty and bounty and live gently on the earth, as other living things instinctively know to do. The natural world gives us clean air to breathe, clean water to drink and an abundance of food from our oceans, lakes and rivers, our trees and rich soils.

However, it seems that more and more of us are conducting our lives as if we are somehow entitled to exploit the natural world, treating it as just another resource, another money-making opportunity or another dumping ground.

Examples of this exploitation are extractive and polluting industries such as drilling and fracking for oil and gas, strip mining for coal, rare metal mining for electronics, chemicals and plastics manufacturing, meat production

farms and giant agribusinesses that grow the food we eat. Each of these enterprises strains our resources and creates significant pollution.

Though we can make personal choices that can help to mitigate the impact of some industries, such as installing geothermal systems to heat and cool our homes, attaching solar panels to produce electricity or resisting the urge to keep upgrading our cell phones, one of the easiest and most effective things we can do is to make better choices at the grocery store.

To understand the impact of food choices on our environment you have to look at every stage of the long journey from a natural resource to our dinner plates. Food production has evolved into an incredibly complicated system that uses prodigious amounts of energy, water and chemical inputs, creating pollution that now threatens our planet and our own health.

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Let’s just look at water pollution from farms. Not your local family farms, but huge agribusinesses growing genetically modified crops (GMOs) on hundreds of thousands of acres.

These farms use vast quantities of chemical pesticides and synthetic or human sewage-based fertilizers that runoff into nearby

bodies of water, killing local flora and fauna and creating “dead zones” in larger bodies of water miles downstream. News reports abound about the dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico, primarily caused by agricultural runoff making its way down into the Mississippi River watershed.

Another example of water pollution from a food industry can be found right here on Long Island.

For generations, shell fishermen working in Oyster Bay have handraked for clams, taking only those that were mature and leaving the seabed relatively undisturbed, allowing successive generations of shellfish to flourish and grow.

But in 1992, a large shellfish company conducting hydraulic and suction shellfish dredging obtained exclusive rights to 1,800 acres in the bay from the Town of Oyster Bay. Mechanical dredging damages the aquatic environment

and imperils important fish species, such as the winter flounder, a threatened species in New York State as well as other federally designated endangered and threatened species.

It also damages the bay substrate, scarring the seabed and generating excessive clouding of the water, depleting oxygen and damaging the fragile ecosystem that other aquatic animals depend on for survival.

This type of aggressive extractive enterprise, in which collateral damage to the environment is just “the cost of doing business,” is also seen on farms that rely primarily on chemicals to produce crops.

Monsanto, the infamous pesticide and seed company which was acquired by Bayer in 2018, created genetically modified crops that were resistant to its infamous herbicide product “RoundUp.” Continued on Page 55

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Days of awe and days of action upon us

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am deeply suspicious of the timing of these bilateral treaties with Israel by Bahrain and UAE – welcome, certainly and doing much to reduce the isolation of Israel (while the U.S. increases its isolation as a pariah nation).

Like the promise that a COVID-19 vaccine will be available by Nov. 1 (two days before Election Day), the “breakthrough” in drug prices (not) and massive funding for Puerto Rico years after Hurricane Maria, the timing is suspect.

Indeed, there is a flurry of activity from the White House to bolster Trump for the election – the memo to reduce drug prices (not really), the promise to overhaul the entire health care system

by Executive Order (oh really?), now the race to fill the “Liberal Lioness” Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court.

The Abraham Accords (the Trump campaign announced an “eight-figure TV ad buy around them), while hailed by a selfcongratulatory Trump as Nobel Peace Prize-worthy, was hardly a “peace agreement” – these countries were never in a hot war with Israel – but more of a commercial trade deal (Saudi Arabia already has extensive trade with Israel), and the purpose of the bilateral was to pave the way for Trump to sell arms to these countries (their common enemy is Iran) without Israel objecting.

Let’s be clear: Trump could care less about Jews, even though his most cherished child, Ivanka, converted when she married Jared Kushner.

Just as he could care less for the lives lost to his super-spreader campaign rallies or destroyed by ruined family finances, he only

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cares about his own political and personal fortunes.

So, Trump overtly supports and courts anti-Semites including White Supremacists, neo-Nazis, QAnon (their foundational conspiracy sounds exactly like Blood Libel), who have come from the shadows into the mainstream, be-

cause they support him.

The thrice-married serial sexual predator and adulterer who never attends church but holds up the Bible as he teargases protesters, courts Evangelists (why he picked Mike Pence as V.P. in the first place), who only support Israel because Israel protects the Christian Holy Sites and because gathering all the Jews in Israel is prerequisite for the Second Coming. They were thrilled at Trump moving the embassy to Jerusalem as a step toward the End Times.

Indeed, with all the crises that Trump is bringing to a head – a “herd mentality” approach to COVID-19 in which as many as six million would die after 220 million contract the disease, his brush off of the wildfires consuming the West (Blue States) and the climate catastrophe making the planet uninhabitable, and the

protests for justice provoking violence – almost fits in with this End Times approach, especially when he casts himself as the “savior.”

It’s an odd tactic: to create the crisis, so, like he did by putting a moratorium on his own order to begin drilling in the ocean off Mar-a-Lago and the Florida coast, then take credit for averting the crisis he caused.

There have been record-high numbers of anti-Semitic attacks each year since Trump took office – in 2018, a gunman killed 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history.

2019 posted a record 2,107 anti-Semitic incidents including deadly attacks by gunmen at a Poway, California synagogue and a New Jersey kosher grocery store, Continued on Page 55

OUT OF LEFT FIELD

Lessons from ‘The Departed’ to all of us

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hen a prominent magazine dedicates its issue to “The Lost Year,” that is a clear signal to take stock of where we are and how we might best proceed. This year of the Covid-19 Pandemic has disrupted — and ended — many lives.

During the past week, Susanna, a friend who has degrees in public health and pharmaceutical studies, said that people need to weigh their options both in terms of medical security and mental health. To what extent do we restrict our mobility and our interactions with other folks out of concerns for health safety? What kinds of initiatives and activities can we advance for purposeful, satisfying lives?

This year, as every year, I receive alumni magazines from my two colleges, Union and Columbia.

Especially in this Covid-19 year, I am saddened by the expanding list of dead alumni.

When I went to my 50th Union College reunion in 2007, we were given a list of “the deceased” from our class. At my 60th reunion in 2017, Union gave us a list of the “departed” (far more numerous than our returning reunion group).

Perhaps it is a component of one’s own aging to think more often about your cohort groups – what characterized their lives and

what were their legacies when they departed. No group of individuals can fit into easy generalizations, but as I thought about the young men I knew in the 1950s, it seemed to me that they provide values and actions that are pertinent in our troubled times of 2020.

My generation of the ’50s has been mocked for conformity and “The Organization Man.” But as the historian David Halberstam points out in his excellent book “The Fifties,” many of the reform activities of the 1960s began in the previous decade.

Looking back, I have been thinking of the legacies of the “departed” – those who were on college campuses with me during the ’50s. Recently, I have written about the impact of fraternities, and I was surprised by the number of emails I received, several from members of my own National, who included the secret fraternity sign-off closing (which I had forgotten).

Several people who wrote to me acknowledged that there was excessive drinking in fraternities, but they celebrated the sense of belonging and a feeling of brotherhood that affirmed their sense of well-being.

That view was also conveyed over the years by those in the now departed cohort. It speaks to a continuing dysfunction in American society – feelings of loneliness.

MICHAEL D’INNOCENZO Out of Left Field Such deprivations are extensively documented now during the 2020 Pandemic, with reports of increased depression, rising considerations of suicide, and problems connecting with others (a recent article was entitled “Alone together.”)

What Suzanne Gordon described as “Intimacy Anorexia” has been an American challenge for decades, amplified by sociologist Philip Slater’s analysis in “The Pursuit of Loneliness.” Just this week, Harvard scholar Robert Putnam, author of “Bowling Alone,” noted that people who “are lonely and feel isolated” are probably “more likely not to engage in politics at all.”

Among my tributes to “The Departed” was their sense of community, which was not only a boost

to mental health, but also a spur to do good, not just to do well. Halberstam’s book highlights these positive dimensions of the so-called “Silent Generation.” For now, here are very brief examples from my experiences with “The Departed” (folks who I am missing more than ever in my advancing years).

Many in the 50s generation, especially on college campuses, thought globally, not just locally.

Even in their youth, they were eager to cultivate global threads. College students in the 1950s opposed mandatory ROTC, escalations of the Cold War, as well as military budgets, and adventurism. These young folks became ardent supporters of JFK and his call for Peace Corps volunteers. All of those positions continue to be relevant today with our bloated military budget at a time of record deficits and expanding economic hardships.

Where are the “Peace Dividends”?

Fraternities at Union College in 1956 sparked an effort to bring vulnerable Hungarian Freedom Fighters to our campus, providing housing and other support.

They lobbied the college to grant scholarships to young Hungarian refugees. At that time, I had the privilege of being president of the student body as well as of the Interfraternity Council. What impressed me then, and encourages me in the years of our pandemic

epidemic, are the effects of collective, sustained actions.

People who meet collectively (live together on college campuses) have opportunities for daily communications and building bonds of encouragement and support. Sometimes it is said they are more talk than action, but studies in social psychology illustrate that the key step for virtuous conduct is to have feelings and concerns about justice and humanity. While some critics rush to negative views about people who espouse reform goals but don’t do enough, social psychologists contend that the spread of empathetic, humanistic views can also affect how others feel – and think.

As more people share positivity about change and reform, tipping points can be reached when actions will produce major results. That was the case for my “departed” pals when they led protests against the structural racism of the 1950s. They were willing to put their fraternities on notice, challenging the good old Southern guys who ran most nationals, with minimally disguised racist views (so offensive in the immediate years after the Supreme Court’s unanimous Brown decision in 1954).

[In my next column: The 1950s battle against systemic racism by college students]

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THE BACK ROAD

Far away yet close to home during pandemic

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have served as editor for the quarterly professional journal Social Work with Groups since 1990.

Social work with groups or group work, as it is more commonly referred to, is a systematic way of organizing people in groups for mutual support and collective action to address and improve individual and community well-being.

As journal editor, I’ve periodically asked contributors to submit short stories as well as more customary 20-page scholarly articles, in an effort to open the door a little wider for aspiring authors to share their stories about compelling contemporary issues.

This is not to say that writing a shorter piece is an easier task than writing a longer one; however, telling stories is something we all do.

In June, I issued a request for stories on pandemic 2020.

Although I expected most of the stories to come from the U.S., I was surprised that the preponderance came from India, at a rate of about one per week.

Perhaps I shouldn’t have

been so surprised given that India has recorded the highest daily count of Covid-19 infections for any country since the start of the pandemic. Although the U.S. still has more total cases, India is where the virus is spreading fastest.

Many of stories I received from India are about group relief efforts to provide ration kits of food and other resources for marginalized individuals, such as displaced laborers. One author, Ajay Saini, offered some context: “The morning of March 25, 2020 dawned unlike any other day in India. The normally jampacked cities, towns, and villages of the world’s second-most populous country were found overwhelmed by an eerie emptiness.

The previous night, the Indian government had announced a coronavirus-induced nationwide lockdown, confining over a billion people to their homes. Overnight, the entire country was rife with uncertainty, fear, and anxiety. Millions of rural poor, who worked and lived precariously in the cities, felt particularly nervous as they tried to foresee their future.”

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Many of the folks Saini was referring to were heading back to their native homes from the cities they had earlier migrated to for low wage labor. In another story Anand Banshkar wrote about the treacherous return home: “People [were] struggling to come back home, but had no means of transportation.

So many of the poor who were migrants working as daily wage workers started coming back on foot. Every day the newspaper was filled with stories about so many dead bodies found on the road and railway track. These were poor people.”

Some of the laborers worked in the beedi industry — tobacco manufacturing. Although beedi work is not the same as the meatpacking industry in the U.S., what it brought to mind for me were stories about the lack of protection for meatpackers and their high rate of infection.

In an August 2020 Pro Publica report, a meat industry executive said, “We were probably more prepared for animal pandemic issues than we were for human pandemics.”

In another story by Saddam Ali, she spoke to the poor living conditions of the beedi laborers who returned to their native homes from the megacities of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) after the lockdown, and then felt compelled to return to unregulated homebased beedi rolling.

This work is dominated by women who lack protective gear, which increases their exposure to unburnt tobacco that they absorb in substantial levels to the degree that it shows up in their saliva and urine.

Ali observed them rolling beedi without using masks or

sanitizer, as they worked in very close proximity to one another in “dark and dingy places” at the same time their children played outside the house without masks or maintaining physical distancing.

In the U.S. what we know is that under-resourced “essential” laborers such as grocery, sanitation and delivery service workers face an elevated risk of infection and often do not have the same access to testing and the ability to quarantine as essential health care workers do.

In India there is a socially stratified caste system that one is born into. The lower caste, including many described in these stories, are referred to as “untouchables”. They have little if any access to the necessary resources that are protective against health risks or essential for proper healthcare.

Reading the graphic descriptions in the stories from India makes me wonder if it is really much different here for marginalized people, even though we don’t refer to them as untouchables.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: ‘Supreme’ judicial giant

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s I was celebrating Rosh Hashana with my family on Friday evening, I learned of the tragic passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Her death hit me like a punch in the stomach, leaving me breathless and scared because the true impact of her death may not be truly felt or appreciated for years to come.

An American trailblazer and icon like Justice Ginsburg comes along very rarely in

our history, and her legacy in championing equality and civil liberties for all Americans is carved into American jurisprudence for generations to come.

However, with a president who has no regard or appreciation for our democracy and its pillars that keep its foundation strong and what I had believed to be indestructible, I am fearful that her legacy could very well be weakened, rendered de minimis, or even erased. By adding another narrow-minded and biased

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judge to the court, he could thereby facilitate the reversal and nullification of the progress this country has seen over the past 50 years in civil rights, women’s rights, LGBT rights and marriage equality, privacy rights and abortion rights.

Justice Ginsburg’s death has brought our country to a tipping point.

We must fight to preserve and protect the fundamental rights bestowed on us all as a result of her life’s contribu-

tions as a selfless, dedicated, relentless trailblazer. I firmly believe she would be disappointed in all of us if we didn’t seize this opportunity to carry the torch that she lit and carried for 87 years.

May she rest in peace and may her memory be a blessing for each and every one of us.

Drucker represents the 16th Legislative District in the Nassau County Legislature.

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Santos a clear difference to Suozzi

BY R O S E W E L D ON If he is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on Nov. 3, George Santos of Queens would be the first openly gay person to serve New York’s 3rd District.

“I’m a gay Republican in New York state,” Santos said in an interview over Zoom. “I am probably a walking, living, breathing contradiction.”

The 3rd District, which Santos is running to represent, includes Manhasset, Roslyn, Port Washington, Great Neck and Floral Park, among other areas, and stretches from Whitestone, Queens, to Kings Park in Suffolk County.

It is currently represented by U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), the former mayor of Glen Cove and former Nassau County executive who was first elected to the seat in 2016, won re-election in 2018, and is seeking another term this year after winning the Democratic primary over Melanie D’Arrigo of Port Washington and Michael Weinstock of Great Neck in June.

Santos, who was confirmed as the Republican nominee for the seat in February, was born in Jackson Heights and raised in various neighborhoods in the borough by his parents, both immigrants from Brazil.

A graduate of Baruch College with a degree in economics and finance, Santos began his professional career at Citigroup in its real assets division, then moved to

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Queens-based financial professional George Santos is the Republican nominee for the Third Congressional District seat, and will face off against U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) in November.

Turkey-based hospitality firm Metglobal.

He briefly worked at Goldman Sachs before joining LinkBridge Investors, and now serves as the regional director of Harbor City Capital, an alternative investment group.

Earlier in the year, Santos’ campaign announced that the candidate had tested positive for COVID-19, one of the

first confirmed cases in the borough of Queens.

“I was treated at Elmhurst Hospital and then at home, with nothing but a recommendation to take something for the fever, specifically Advil or Aleve,” Santos said. “I followed those instructions, and I had probably the worst two weeks of my life as an adult.”

Due to underlying medical conditions that leave him with only 70 percent function in his lungs, Santos couldn’t be given traditional treatments.

“I went from asymptomatic to a very aggressive pneumonia that lingered around for a while, then a fever that reached delirium, where I was saying things that were incoherent,” Santos said.

“I was calling my mother’s name at one point and my mom’s been deceased for quite some time. That’s how bad it was.”

He says that he made it through while staying in his apartment with his partner, a pharmacist.

“I had to break this on my own in quarantine for two weeks and then deal with a cough that lingered around for 30 days,” Santos said. “Nobody would come near me thinking I was still viral. That said, I survived coronavirus.”

Concerning nationwide handling of the virus and the response of President Donald Trump, Santos said that he “had nothing to compare it to.”

“I think that it was an unprecedented pandemic that we have not experienced

in modern years, so I don’t want to jump too harsh on conclusions,” Santos said. “I don’t think President Trump’s handling was necessarily bad. I think he acted with good instincts as early on as February by initiating the China travel ban.”

He added that he supports the president “to the extent that his words make sense,” and will be voting for him in November.

Concerning the virus response, “the president did the best he could with the tools at hand,” Santos said. “I think there was room for improvement, yes, but I don’t think it was a disaster as bad as everybody’s painting it to be.”

Despite the Senate intelligence committee’s conclusion on Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Santos said it is “a hoax.”

“I do not believe there was any Russian meddling,” Santos said. “I do believe the Mueller report was very, very poorly executed. It was a large waste of taxpayer dollars, and I think we’ve had a lot of divisiveness and a lot of polarization in this country because of that hoax, I do call it a hoax.”

Not all of his thoughts align with the president’s, though. Santos said that while he is “looking into” the effects of capping the state and local tax (SALT) deduction at $10,000 for federal taxes as part of a package Trump signed into law several years ago, he was not in favor of it at first.

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Suozzi at odds with State financial hole now leadership on aid plan at $3.2 billion: DiNapoli

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) and other members of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus unveiled a “March to Common Ground” framework that is aimed at breaking the gridlock over passing a coronavirus relief package that prioritizes everyday people and essential services.

The new framework calls for new stimulus money and reallocation of funds previously appropriated in the CARES Act. Areas of need that were outlined in a news release sent out by Suozzi’s office include state and local aid, coronavirus testing, small business and nonprofit support, food security, schools and child care, and housing.

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New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli reported last Wednesday that state tax revenue is $3.2 billion lower than it was this time last year, but that the state did take in $309 million more in tax receipts than was projected by the state Division of Budget.

“Tax revenues continue to fall short of levels needed to fund education, health care and other vital services in this year’s budget,” DiNapoli said. “The revenue hole the pandemic created is getting deeper. Unless Washington acts to provide further fiscal relief for New York, painful budget decisions lie ahead.”

The comptroller’s office released the state cash report for August, which showed that spending far outweighed tax intake in the month. Local assistance grants were by far the largest source of governmental funds disbursements; most of those grants went to Medicaid or education.

Personal income tax collections toPHOTO COURTESY OF THE CONGRESSMAN’S OFFICE taled $2.7 billion in August, which was $157 million higher than projected but U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) and the bipartisan Problem Solvers 6.4 percent lower than last year. The gap

Caucus presented a new framework for a coronavirus relief bill.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli in sales receipts was greater, at about 20 percent lower than last year.

DiNapoli said that the $150 billion federal Coronavirus Relief Fund from the federal government could have been better aimed to localities that suffered most from the pandemic. He points to New York City as one such example. Instead, the funds were disbursed based on Census Bureau population data.

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Teachers union files suit over school funding

BY E LL I OT W E L D The New York State United Teachers, the state’s largest union, filed suit last Tuesday against the state government over reductions in aid given to school districts.

It specifically is seeking the release of funds withheld in July, August and September.

The suit said that the 20 percent cut in state aid, which amounts to over $5 billion, in the 2020-21 state budget was “unconstitutional, illegal, and a violation of the separation and distribution of powers under the New York State Constitution.”

It alleges that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget created powers for the state budget director to “unilaterally withhold appropriated state aid to localities based on budget imbalances attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.”

The suit points out that the state budget director, Robert F. Mujica, is an unelected appointee of the executive branch and has “no political accountability to the people of this state.”

Granting this authority to the budget director violated the state constitution’s budgetary process and was an unconstitutional delegation of power, the suit said.

NYSUT represents approximately

600,000 teachers and school professionals. It is listed as the plaintiff in the suit along with a few other teachers unions from around the state including the Yonkers Federation of Teachers and Schenectady Federation of Teachers.

Among the defendants are Cuomo, the New York State Division of the Budget and Mujica.

However, the budget agency said Friday that the suit is incorrect in its allegations of cuts to school aid.

“The frivolous, uninformed NYSUT lawsuit is just wrong: there has not been cuts to school aid and only one percent of annual school aid has been temporarily withheld,” a spokesman for the budget division said in an email to Blank Slate Media.

He went on to say that September payments are being made in full but in the absence of federal aid, other action may be necessary.

“We are looking into at least November to have as much clarity as possible before, if necessary, undertaking a permanent gap-closing process, at which point all options would be on the table to limit the impacts of a federal failure to act and offset the state’s $62 billion, four-year revenue loss,” the spokesman said.

NYSUT President Andy Pallotta said school districts cannot wait for the federal government to provide aid to public schools.

“Time is up. With the loss of the state funding driving cuts at the local level in districts around the state, we can’t just keep waiting for action at the federal level to fund our schools,” Pallotta said.

The NYSUT said that the state has about $7 billion in reserve and settlement funds to avoid cuts such as these and advocated for taxes on the ultrawealthy and additional federal aid.

In a news release, the teachers union

said school districts across the state are “considering or making staffing cuts that only serve to reduce student access to academic and other essential services.”

It pointed to school districts in Albany, Schenectady and Syracuse where hundreds have been laid off and New York City where officials threatened to lay off 9,000 employees last month.

In recent months, as members of Congress have clashed along partisan lines over a new relief bill for localities, Cuomo has said the state needs more federal aid to avert large cuts to public services.

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Now medical experts affiliated with NYU Long Island School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health have collaborated to develop a template for remote COVID-19 healthcare delivery, including protocols for assessing and triaging patients who may be COVID-positive.

The spectrum of symptoms in persons infected with COVID-19 range from asymptomatic to severe and life-threatening; the more benign manifestations are often able to be managed from home.

A new report, titled “A Telemedicine Approach to Covid-19 Assessment and Triage,” published on Sept. 10, in Medicina,

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a peer-reviewed scientific and medical journal, outlines protocols for assessing various patient symptoms through virtual means.

The paper notes that these protocols are most easily applicable in settings that have adequate internet or phone connections, and that, when the technology is available, telehealth is also promising for the delivery of care to persons living in remote areas where distance is a barrier to seeking help.

“Most physicians have never before practiced telemedicine, and in this new world of a pandemic, our guidelines serve as a blueprint for safe and effective Covid-19 assessments,” said the report’s lead author, Allison B. Reiss, MD, Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at NYU Long Island School of Medicine and head of the Inflammation Laboratory at NYU Winthrop Hospital’s Research Institute.

A virtual assessment of Covid-19 symptoms is more feasible than one might imagine, according to the report’s

authors. A “Decision-tree diagram” in the report helps direct practitioners in classifying the seriousness of the infectious disease, while numerous adaptations to the physical exam can help detect symptoms.

The telemedicine physical exam, for example, includes observing the patient’s breathing in order to detect “respiratory distress,” i.e. whether the patient is having trouble breathing, a warning sign of a more serious Covid-19 infection.

Dr. Reiss noted that respiratory issues can be discerned virtually by “looking, listening, and counting” a patient’s respiratory rate and respiratory effort. A virtual viewing of the throat could be aided by a flashlight (a household member might assist). A patient exhibiting tenderness to the abdomen, upon their own touch, might indicate telltale Covid-related gastrointestinal issues, and so on.

The report’s guidelines adhere to criteria established by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), including for assessing the clinical stability of patients.

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in response to the Covid-19 pandemic allows physicians to safely maintain connections to their patients in a way never before achieved—whether involving Covid-related or other medical issues,” said Eric Goldberg, MD, Senior Medical Director, Department of Medicine at NYU Langone Health and Clinical Associate Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine. “Telemedicine can also create deeper connections between a physician and patient, emanating from the personal spaces shared by each.”

The collaborating institutions on the report were actively using telemedicine protocols prior to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic but saw a rise in daily visits from 50 in early March 2020 to more than 7,000 by April 2020—completing more than 550,000 video visits during the March-August time period.

The report authors say that, ultimately, widespread adoption of this technological tool will be determined by formal studies of quality, comparing telehealth versus in-person outcomes.

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Freeing our creative side in museum art class

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RILEY II, PHD Director, Nassau Museum As visitors took their first tentative steps to return to the Nassau Museum back in July, I noticed a fascinating trend in their responses to “real paintings” by contrast with the online simulacra they had been stuck looking at all spring.

Many were eager to express their feelings through their own art. Released from lockdown, turned on by the joy of Matisse’s radiant blue cutouts or the big swathes of color in Helen Frankenthaler’s poured painting that are the highlights of our bluethemed show, they wanted to give it a try themselves. Who could blame them?

Art is a marvelous outlet, a colorful way to make sense not only of the world but our deeper natures.

So we decided to step up our already robust program of art classes. We moved our renowned Art Compass programs for people on the autism spectrum online as well. While many comparable in-

stitutions were laying off teachers and shrinking their educational programs, we doubled down on new offerings taught by hiring master teachers from across the region whose reputations attract their own followings.

It is especially gratifying to see lifelong learners sign up for something new and challenging.

One of our star students is Paul

Vegoda, whose watercolor techniques are improving by leaps and bounds under the tutelage of Pam Koehler.

Paul is an art lover who knows how to make the most of a Museum. He and I have pondered the meaning of works in the exhibitions in my director’s seminars, and he spends a day at our front desk as a volunteer. We share the

belief that making a painting in response to a work we are studying is a valuable way to learn its meaning as well as the deeper secrets of how it was made. I notice he never misses a session of classes or a seminar.

Designed for adults and teens, these virtual studio art programs are led by teaching artists with years of experience with students

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Among the featured offerings that you can sign up for online, allow me to recommend Still Life Drawing with Pam Koehler. Draw from a live arrangement during this Zoom class, and learn to arrange your own still lifes in your home studio while applying the concepts of composition, value, perspective and contour line.

Another marvelous class is Botanical Watercolor with Oksana Danziger. Practice mindfulness and creativity in a relaxing and meditative watercolor class. Begin with light stretching and visual meditation, followed by watercolor painting while observing live florals and images, learn various painting, color mixing, and application techniques to create original floral-inspired works of art.

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Family-friendly autumn outdoor activities

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According to a 2006 study published in the journal Human Dimensions of Wildlife, fifth graders who attended school at a local prairie wet-

lands where lessons in science, math and writing were integrated in an experimental way had significantly stronger reading and writing skills than their peers who attended

more traditional schools. Another study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health found that holding a class outdoors one day a week significantly improved the daily cortisol patterns of students, reducing their risk of stress and improving their ability to adapt to stress.

Parents who want their children to reap the rewards of being exposed to the great outdoors can encourage educators to incorporate nature into school curriculums and also embrace these family-friendly outdoor activities. · Nature treasure hunt: A treasure hunt in nature can keep kids engaged on family hiking excursions and provide an excellent opportunity for parents to teach children about the assortment of plants, birds and wildlife that live in the parks and along the trails near their home. · Outdoor art class: Families don’t even need to leave their properties to spend quality time together outside. Pick

a pleasant afternoon and set up an outdoor painting station, encouraging everyone to paint what they see. Fall is a great time to host an outdoor art sessions thanks to the assortment of vibrant colors that have become synonymous with autumn landscapes. · Bonfire: Outdoor activities need not be limited to daylight hours. A post-dinner backyard bonfire can entice everyone outside, where families can tell scary stories as they make s’mores. · Stargaze: Stargazing is another way families can spend time outdoors and learn a few things at the same time. Some blankets, a thermos of hot cocoa and a chart of constellations can provide the perfect complement to a sky full of bright stars. If visibility is compromised in the backyard, find a local spot where everyone can get a clear view of the night sky.

Families looking to spend more time together in the great outdoors can look to a number of activities people of all ages can enjoy.

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pple picking is a beloved autumn tradition. While many traditions had to be put on the back burner as the world dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic, apple picking seems like one activity that can endure in a world dominated by social distancing.

Apple picking season tends to begin in mid- to late-September and ends sometime in early October. That makes apple picking a perfect social distancing activity, as it’s both outdoors and at a time of year when the weather is generally pleasant no matter where you live.

Individuals interested in apple picking this fall can take heed of these tips to ensure their trip is fun, safe and successful. · Contact the farm in advance. Apple picking is a wildly popular activity, so expect a crowd to be there on a typical autumn weekend. That can be tricky to navigate while social distancing, so call ahead to learn about new protocols and

if the operating hours are the same. If the farm is open several days per week, ask which days are the least busy and schedule your trip when foot traffic figures to be minimal. · Choose firm apples without bruises. According to Pic-

kyourown.org, apples should be crisp and firm. Don’t worry about the color of the apple, as color is not an indicator of ripeness. Instead, Pickyourown.org advises people to ask the farmers which apples are ripe, which is determined

by how long it’s been since the trees flowered. · Gently place picked apples into your basket. Pickyourown.org recommends gently placing apples into your basket after picking them. Tossing them into the basket may

cause bruising, which can lead to the apples spoiling prematurely. While it depends on the variety, many apples that are not bruised tend to last a long time, especially when stored in a cool place. So taking care of them when picking them can mean you get to enjoy apples for several weeks. · Clean apples before eating them. The Food and Drug Administration notes that produce can be contaminated even after it’s been picked and brought home. The FDA advises consumers to wash their hands for 20 seconds with warm water and soap before and after preparing fresh produce. Produce should be rinsed before it’s peeled so any lingering dirt and bacteria are not transferred from the knife onto the fruit or vegetable. If bruising has occurred, cut away the damaged or bruised areas before preparing or eating it.

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Autumn skincare tips

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s summer transitions to fall, many changes take place.

In addition to changing landscapes, men and women may need to adapt their health and wellness habits to ensure that they stay healthy and happy. Part of that daily regimen includes how to care for skin as the seasons change.

Just as skin requires certain protection from the sun and heat in the summer, skin has special needs in the fall and winter. Fall and winter are often characterized by cold, dry weather, which can make these times of year particularly challenging for people with dry or sensitive skin. These tips can help people maintain their skin’s appearance and health. · Don’t skip the sunscreen.

Sunscreen is not a summer-only requirement. UV rays can damage the skin any time of year, even if the rays are not as strong as during the summer. UV radiation accelerates and increases the risk of skin cancer. It also can lead to premature aging. Utilize a sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher every day. · Invest in a humidifier. Dry, cold temperatures can rob the skin of essential moisture, even indoors. Der-

matologists suggest using a humidifier at home to boost the amount of moisture in the air. This can make skin more comfortable and can have other health benefits as well. · Skip hot showers. It can be tempting to sit under a hot stream of water to warm up. However, hot water dries out the skin by depleting its stores of natural oils, says Glacier Med Spa. Take warm showers instead and don’t stay in for longer than 15 minutes. · Limit exfoliation. While exfoliation can remove dead skin, overdoing it can make already sensitive skin more raw. Increase the time between exfoliation treatments. Consult with a dermatologist for more advice about dealing with flaky skin. · Don’t forget your lips. Using a thicker moisturizer on the body and face can help add and retain moisture. But pay attention to your lips and eyes as well. Something as simple as petroleum jelly on the lips can help prevent chapping. Invest in a quality eye cream to help the delicate skin around the eyes as well.

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Tips for planting fall vegetables

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ending to backyard vegetable gardens can fill many hours of enjoyable downtime in the great outdoors. What’s more, the bounty produced by such gardens provides healthy, fresh foods to gardeners and their loved ones.

Although spring and summer are widely seen as the peak of gardening season, the mild temperatures of autumn can be a prime time for planting vegetables as well. Certain late-season treats like carrots, kale, spinach, and turnips can thrive in fall gardens.

Many different foods are quick crops that can go from seed to table in about six weeks. When sown in early fall, these vegetables will be ready to put on the table for mid-October feasts.

Beets, green onions, broccoli, and cabbages can be planted in late summer for fall harvest. Gardeners who live in hardiness zones eight through 10 (the southern portion of the United States) can plant fall vegetables as late as December. Many of these plants can tolerate light frost, which may even help sweeten the vegetables.

A handful of unique factors need to be taken into consideration when planning fall vegetable gardens. · The summertime location of the garden may still be adequate, but be

sure to choose a location that gets eight full hours of sunlight per day. · If using an existing garden site, clear out any detritus from summer plants and any weeds that have sprouted. If you are planting a new garden, remove any turf before tilling the soil. · Amend the soil with sand, compost, manure fertilizer, and any other nutrients needed depending on the types of vegetables you intend to grow. · While fall vegetables can be grown successfully from seeds, it may be more time-friendly to work from larger transplants, advises the Texas A&M Agrilife Extension. · Some plants may need a little protection as they grow if temperatures begin to dip. Cover with a blanket, cardboard box or plastic tunnel to insulate.

Remember to water according to the vegetables planted and to keep an eye on readiness for vegetables. Turnips, beets, rutabagas, and carrots can be dug out when the roots are plump and crisp.

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REYNOLDS, PH.D Staying home and at least six feet away from others helps limit the spread of COVID-19 and saves lives, but a lack of social connection might paradoxically put people — especially those with preexisting mental health conditions and substance use disorders — at higher risk of death due to suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol poisoning.

In January, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that more Americans were dying from so-called “deaths of despair” than at any other point in history, and the last time we used words like “pandemic” and “crisis,” we were referring to widespread addiction to opioid painkillers and heroin.

Now, six months into the COVID-19 crisis, the anxiety, depression and uncertainty that has plagued our nation, our communities, and our families continues to deepen and recent studies confirm what we are seeing among our family, friends, co-workers and maybe even ourselves.

Federal researchers, for example, recently surveyed 5,412 Americans and found that more than 40 percent of respondents reported an adverse mental health or behavioral health condition, 13 percent said they had started or increased their use of drugs or alcohol to cope with stress or emotions related to COVID-19 and a whopping 25.5 percent of those ages 18-24 said they had “seriously considered” suicide in the last 30 days.

In addition to young people whose college educations and entry into adulthood has been disrupted, racial and ethnic minorities, essential workers on the financial brink and caregivers for elderly adults appear to have been impacted the most. Moms with young children are also experiencing severe anxiety and debilitating depression at record levels and a recent Kaiser Family Foundation study found that 35 percent of moms said back-to-school stress and worry has had a “major” impact on their mental health.

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So, what’s the key to getting through Sales of boxed wine increased tenfold during the first eight weeks of the the rest of 2020?

Adequate sleep, proper nutrition COVID lockdown, while beer sales jumped 20 percent with the largest in- and daily exercise are key to maintaincreases in 24-packs. Sales of whiskey, ing good physical and mental health. vodka, gin and other spirits soared 23 Reaching out to friends and family, going for walks, practicing yoga, meditation percent.

While drug use is harder to track and or mindfulness, playinggames or doing it will be months before annual govern- puzzles,can be helpful as well. Track ment surveys shed any light on drug use your alcohol and/or drug use. patterns, an analysis of more than 1 million drug-related comment threads on the popular Reddit chatboard suggests that Americans have also been turning to drugs to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, with sharp increases in conversations about marijuana, alcohol, hallucinogens, tobacco and cocaine.

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Those things are the PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) that will keep us emotionally healthy, strong and safe as we await a COVID vaccine and a return to normalcy.

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9/11 impacts all of us, 19 years later

t is now 19 years since the attack on the World Trade Center. Each year we have shared moments of grief, comfort and hope, as we hear

the names of the loved ones who lost their lives on that day, and we remember.

As the bells ring during the ceremony to recall the time that

each of the buildings fell I am reminded of this portion of John Donne’s poem: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece

of the continent, a part of the main.

Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved with mankind; and therefore never

send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

Myrna Feder Great Neck

RBG a true champion of justice in America

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was most sad to read of the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died from pancreatic cancer. She was a true icon who believed in the law and believed in defending the Constitution.

Ruth was a Brooklyn girl who truly did well for America and its people. She was a true pioneer who was the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court. At 87 and spending decades on the Supreme Court, she made her

mark defending the rights of men and women who needed a true champion of justice. I also praise her for her tenacious efforts fighting cancer. I can relate to that because I had cancer and hope it does not reappear as it did with Ruth

Bader Ginsburg.

Ruth was a brave woman who stood up for gender equality and civil rights. I did not agree with her on all issues since I am pro-life, but I defend her right to speak out in what she believed in. As such my

heartfelt prayers go out to her family, friends, fellow justices and all of America that mourns for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a true champion of justice.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Bellerose

Why is Great Neck a hotspot for Covid-19?

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ach day I review the chart in Newsday indicating the number of Covid-19 cases in all the villages in Nassau and Suffolk County and, to my dismay, the Village of Great Neck con-

sistently shows the highest growth rate on all of Long Island.

Why do we hold this distinction? This is terribly frightening and frustrating for the residents of this Village, most of whom try

to abide by all the recommended actions to keep down the transmission of the disease. Obviously there are many who are not and, despite their protestations about lack of authority or resources, the mayor

(himself a physician) and the trustees must vigorously respond before the whole Village is infected.

Investigations should be undertaken to determine the causes and locations of the recent out-

breaks and strong steps taken to shame or prosecute those responsible.

Steven Markowitz Great Neck

Thank you Flower Hill for your election support

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n the recent Flower Hill election we saw the largest turnout in memory with over 800 people coming out to vote. We wanted to thank each and every one of you for coming out to vote.

Every vote was an example of

your participation in our democracy and a memorial to those who fought to preserve it.

To win with over 70 percent of the voters supporting our agenda is only part of the story. It is also a reflection of the good work

the village staff is doing every day to help our residents.

This result is also a tribute to the legacy of our dear friend former Mayor Bob McNamara, a dedicated servant to our community.

To those residents that voted

for the Liberty Party, we know this was a statement that there are issues in the community you would like addressed. We recognize this and look forward to working directly with you in the coming months and years.

Every voter can be assured that our Flower Hill Party will be fighting for the best interest of our Village.

Brian Herrington Gary Lewandowski Randall Rosenbaum

Suozzi puts our district first in Washington

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hen an elected official goes to Washington or Albany, there is always a risk that he or she will get sucked into political fights and lose sight of the issues central to their constituents at home. This has not been the case for Congressman Tom Suozzi, who has stayed laser-focused on the needs of his district.

Congressman Suozzi’s attention to his constituents has been especially pronounced these past few months during the pandemic when we have needed him most. In addition to the billions of dollars the congressman helped secure for hospitals and frontline workers

to help fight COVID as well as funding for small businesses, Tom has used his position to make sure our state, which was disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, receives an appropriate share of federal relief expenditures.

In particular, the congressman fought to have the Heroes Act amended to ensure that states that were hardest hit by the pandemic received the greatest share of aid offered through the legislation.

In building support for this measure, Tom was able to make the clear case that New Yorkers needed to be put first in such an effort and was even successful in bringing along Republicans

to support the legislation like Congressman Peter King.

Similarly, when our district was negatively impacted by the Republican tax reform legislation that capped state and local deductions, Tom stood at the center of the fight advocating for the cap’s repeal. Through his work on the Ways and Means Committee, Congressman Suozzi was successful in leading this effort in the House and has worked with Senator Chuck Schumer to ensure the cap’s repeal will be a priority if the Democrats are able to retake the Senate this fall.

Tom has also been a leader on environmental issues, securing the endorsement of the Sier-

ra Club and has kept his focus on our backyard by securing crucial funding that will impact our district. Specifically, Congressman Suozzi helped pass legislation to provide tens of millions of dollars to preserve and protect the Long Island Sound and significantly increased the amount of federal funding to clean up the Navy-Grumman plume.

Additionally, Congressman Suozzi’s district-focused approach has recognized the diversity of those he represents.

In particular, as a Jewish constituent of his, I will always be grateful for remarks Tom gave on CNN when responding to a charge that questioned the loyalty of Jewish Americans to

our country. The congressman stood up for his constituents and spoke of his own family history, referencing the bigotry his grandfather faced as an ItalianAmerican fighting for our country against Mussolini in World War II. Running for re-election, Congressman Tom Suozzi has built an impressive list of accomplishments during his second term and consistently focused on issues that impact the lives of his constituents. I am proud to be supporting him and encourage the readers of this letter to do the same.

Peter Fishkind Great Neck

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Trump has done good job with coronavirus

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fter reading several comments in the Sept.

11 reader’s section, I felt the need to respond. It seems we have a seer out there somewhere who is capable of reading Donald Trump’s mind.

To quote, “If you think he cares about Israel and the Jews, guess again” was the seer’s comment.

Apparently, this seer does not know that Ivanka Trump is Jewish, along with her husband and children. She knows nothing about the moving of the USA Embassy to Jerusalem and Trump’s staunch support for the only real Democracy in the area.

Now, this unknown mind reader has predicted the failure of the recent Israeli and UAE treaty and it seems to really gall her that Trump, of all people, and his representatives have been able to do something that no one else has accomplished

since Anwar Sadat. Several other countries in the area are now following suit.

She has him mixed up with Obama who was no friend to Israel and pandered to the Palestinians every chance he got.

Now let’s address NATO and our allies. For the first time in my lifetime, Trump has finally gotten other NATO countries to pay their dues as they should have been doing all along. Not every country is where they should be but it is a start.

Our seer does not seem to know that Obama and Clinton pardoned actual murderers and there is no comparison when it comes to crimes that were pardoned by Trump.

When it comes to lies and Trump, I will not attempt to defend hyperbole, exaggeration and braggadocio but I will not abide hypocrisy, either.

Biden has been lying for over 47 years, he continues to

lie today about what Trump said in Charlottesville, about what he, Biden, has planned for this country from day to day, about who is to blame for the riots and mayhem that is going on in this country ( Democratic leadership that has refused Federal help).

I suggest you go to Biden’s website and read about what he has planned for this country.

This man, who can’t put two sentences together on any given day without reading them, has a mind-boggling agenda for turning back the clock and adding radical changes.

Be prepared for rolling blackouts by 2050 because the green new deal is on its way unless he has some trick up his sleeve to replace windmills and solar power. Going to throw millions of our taxpayer dollars to “improve things” South of the border. Sound familiar?

And be prepared for the onslaught of illegals, again, as he is

going to roll back all the action that was taken to slow it down by this administration.

The hypocrisy continues with “a person who put children in cages” and she doesn’t seem to know that those cages were used by Obama.

Where was she then? Then there are the sexual accusations.

Both of these men have been named in cases, more hypocrisy.

I suggest she watch Fox news once in a while to learn about what CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the media hide from view.

Then we have a gentleman who wrote that he is “scared” about the coronavirus.

President Trump is tested every day for the virus according to news reports. He is apparently not worried about catching it himself so he is without a mask much of the time. If he is disease-free, he endangers no one else and that is his choice to make.

Masks are not mandated everywhere. This man seems to think that Trump has not done enough and should have some magic power to stop this yesterday. I watched the president, under the advice of the experts, mobilize this country to deal with this pandemic.

As an RN with 60 years of experience, there is not one other person out there who could have done a better job with what was known about this virus.

Surely, Biden would have been a catastrophe. Trump is accused of underplaying it. I watched all involved underplay it from Fauci on down to Pelosi, de Blasio and Biden and we can’t forget Cuomo.

Anyone doubt me? Do your homework. There are reams of videos out there with all their statements written in stone.

Gayle Palmer RN Williston Park

Why Weprin is a no for next NYC comptroller

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ueens state Assemblymember David Weprin made it official that he will conduct another run for New York City Comptroller in 2021.

This is no surprise to any observer of his political career. One of the worst-kept secrets in NYC politics were his once again run for NYC Comptroller in 2021.

He is in favor of renewal of a non-resident commuter tax which would add to our already outrageous property and school taxes.

Remember all his fundraisers near City Hall for municipal Pay for Play contributors from $500 to $4,250 per person prior to his losing 2009 bid for NYC Comptroller?

In the coming months, he will resume the same events up to $2,000 per person to pay for his 2021 NYC comptroller bid.

Weprin’s addiction to raising vast sums of money illustrates exactly what is wrong with both Albany and City Hall.

If you like the status quo of financial mismanagement, runaway borrowing, deficit spending. budgets with billions in offline spending hidden under state authorities beholden only to the governor, pork-barrel member item spending and excessive special interest Pay for Play lobbying, Weprin is certainly the “right man” for the job.

His past NYC Council legislative record, loyalty to Democratic clubhouse candidates and Pay for Play fundraising affiliations provide ample qualifications to preserve all of the above.

If you want real change and reform in City Hall, look elsewhere. Change starts with an independent city comptroller who is not beholden to special inter-

ests or the Democratic Party clubhouse machine. This is the only way to initiate real reform.

Since 2001, Weprin has run and lost races for NYC Council Speaker (2001 & 2005), Congress (2011) and NYC Comptroller (2009).

He clearly has grown tired of his three-hour drive to Albany along with being paid only $114,500 per year plus his lulu from state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie for chairing the Committee on Corrections.

It has always been in his blood to seek higher public office.

The only problem has been that he lost each time. His colleagues and voters have never found him qualified for a promotion to higher office For several years, Weprin has been traveling outside his district to other neighborhoods in Queens and the other boroughs

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uring these crazy times and many negative things going on in the world, I thought that it was important to thank the Sid Jacobson JCC, Bagel Boss and the wonderful volun-

teers for making it possible to deliver a challah bread to my house every Friday.

This act of kindness helps my mom who is 97 and participated in one of their programs feel connected to the JCC and

their wonderful staff who she misses very much. We appreciate all that you do. A simple gesture means so much.

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outside his Assembly District.

This will include stops at various local and county Democratic Party clubhouses.

All of this will be to build up a series of political IOU’s from other elected officials, civic associations, not for profit, unions and name recognition. He hopes that this time it will make a difference when he announces his campaign for NYC Comptroller in 2021.

Don’t bet on it.

In 2009, of the five Democratic Party County organizations, only Staten Island endorsed him.

His own Queens County Democratic Pary organization endorsed then NYC Councilmember John Lui instead of Weprin.

Will the Queens County Democratic Party Chairperson, Congressmember Gregory Meeks, and his loyal political followers endorse Weprin this time around and deliver in the upcoming 2021 Democratic Primary for NYC comptroller?

If they couldn’t deliver a clear victory for Queens Borough President Melinda Katz in her race for Queens District Attorney, how will they be able to do the same in the 2021 Democratic primary for NYC comptroller?

Despite his claims of financial expertise, he was never considered a serious candidate by colleagues in the State Legislature to

replace former state Comptroller Alan Hevisi in 2007.

NYC Comptroller John Liu and State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli expressed no interest in hiring Weprin for financial knowledge as a deputy comptroller.

NYC councilmembers never promoted him to NYC Council Speaker in 2001 & 2005.

His prior experience as Deputy Superintendent of Banks under Gov. Mario Cuomo, Secretary of the Banking Board for New York State and long career on Wall Street made no difference in his previous races.

The party has become far more liberal than even Weprin over time with the growing number of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez socialist-style Democrats. They will not be impressed with his Wall Street financial background.

If Weprin is so confident of becoming the next NYC comptroller, why is he running in 2020 for another term in the state Assembly? Weprin would be free to campaign full time without any conflicts of interest.

His constituents would be sure of a full-time Assembly member who would serve out the next two years. Weprin is hedging his bets while running for reelection to the Assembly in 2020.

Larry Penner Great Neck.

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Liberate the USPS from Donald Trump

quote: “Article 1 Section 8 of The United States Constitution (emphasis mine) The Congress SHALL have power. to establish Post Of-

fices and Post Roads.”

The power to regulate or manage the USPS does not rest with ANY president, least of all one who would manipulate and mismanage

same for political advantage.

The Current Occupant (CO?) of the White House who shall remain nameless, has publicly and explicitly stated that this is his precise intention.

This CO (see above) would have himself as nothing less than the authoritarian strongman of a fascist banana republic (where ONLY HE gets a second helping of

bananas), a truly SAD! state of affairs.

Eric Cashdan Sands Point

Trump supporters! You believe what he says?

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rump supporters. You listen to Trump’s own words. You believe what he says, except when you listen to Trump’s own words.

Huh? That doesn’t make sense.

You believe or you don’t believe even when it flows through the same mouth. Welcome to Trumpland.

It’s the same type of land

where Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Huey, Louie, Dewey and Goofy all reside. They’re both Fantasyland and Trump supporters are like little kids; they believe anything that’s told to them or they won’t. Huh? What’s real?

200,000! That’s real. That’s the number of people who have died so far.

Then you hear something

like; “I knew that this was a plague and I knew it early on but, what could I do? What could I do? Play it down. Let people die but, the stock market went up. Let my people thrive.

The others? Let them starve or die. Get them back to work. It’s all about the economy. So what if their jobs are gone. They need money? Sorry. Let’s be real. The

forecast ain’t sunny. Rain rain go away.”

Little Donald wants to play, with our lives and with the lives of his own Trump supporters. It’s their lives too. And you believe what he says? Huh? The end, and if it is, who’s sorry now? Goodbye Trump supporters. So long it’s been good to know you. Heaven on earth?

Nah. It’s been more like hell.

The Devil rises from below with smoke and eternal flames.

Who can stop it? I guess it pays to believe in a real God. Dear God in Heaven. Help us all, that is unless you too believe what he says. Huh? Alvin H. Goldberg Great Neck

Sen. Anna Kaplan wrong on vaccine advice

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t is ironic that State Sen. Kaplan denounced what she called a misinformation campaign by spreading misinformation herself.

I am a registered Democrat who voted for Sen. Kaplan in the last election. That does not preclude me from calling out

misinformation when I see it.

What part of “people have been reluctant to take the trial vaccine because many feel the process has been rushed for political purposes” is not true?

I personally will hold off taking any vaccine until it has been proved to be safe and ef-

fective.

The senator went on to say the missive under question was “full of lies and conspiracy theories”. Note the use of plurals especially “theories.”

Pure puffery on the senator’s part. She also said that the police have been notified. What

crime has been committed by a person utilizing the First Amendment?

A while back I received a flier in the mail boasting in large capital letters that “Senator Kaplan passed . . .” a particular bill. She might have signed on as a co-sponsor or something,

but she certainly did not pass the bill.

Only the Legislature can pass a bill.

Is the pot calling the kettle black?

Alan Reff East Williston

Beware of overdevelopment in Great Neck

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illenials, be careful what you wish for. The very situation Mr. Kadden desires (Sept. 8) – to have more people residing in Great Neck – may in fact create adverse conditions that make Great Neck a less desirable place to live.

As it presently stands, the unending approval and construction of multi-story dwellings will lead us to overdevelopment. That is why residents are protesting and writing letters in order to protect their single greatest investment – their homes. It is a fact that a singlefamily house (on Steamboat Road near Cornelia Street) lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in value when the homeowner sold because a new, densely packed project was built practically on top of his house.

We live on a narrow peninsula. We can therefore accommodate only a limited population, especially since the only exit we have is to the south. Even if every single person in Great Neck agreed that

we should substantially increase our existing population, we would still need to evaluate and critically assess the long-range consequences. If the negatives outweigh the positives, we must pull back and make appropriate adjustments to our plans. I’m not against change.

Certainly, buildings that are old and decrepit should be renovated or replaced.

The overdevelopment of Great Neck may adversely affect every one of us. Our mayors therefore have to work as a unit to make decisions regarding new development. Because local mayors tend to lack urban planning experience, we should consider consulting professional urban planners, but only if it can be determined there is no conflict of interest. Perhaps the Great Neck community can enlist the services of a Hofstra or Adelphi professor. Real estate developers are not the ones to ask for advice – they cannot be expected to be objective.

I have several specific points

to make in response to Mr. Kadden’s statements.

1) Mr. Kadden bemoans the fact that he won’t be able to move right back to Great Neck as a young adult. It’s no secret why Great Neck is part of the “Gold Coast.” It’s never been expected that young people just starting out will be able to afford to live here!

2) Although Middle Neck Road has not been thriving over the past several years, the Covid pandemic has created many more store vacancies. This is not a problem limited to Great Neck. It will take special efforts to reinvigorate our commercial corridor given this caliber of disaster.

3) Why were stores failing even before the pandemic? With a population of about 30,000 people, we SHOULD be able to support the stores on the peninsula.

I don’t think that, as Mr. Kadden says, we need more people in order to bolster the local businesses.

Perhaps we need different stores that would be more popular. Lack

of easy and accessible parking remains a critical issue. Look at Chico’s as an example. They closed their one store in Great Neck on Middle Neck Road specifically because the lack of parking made it too difficult for their customers to shop.

4) It has been estimated that 500-600 apartment units are slated to rise (or have recently been built) on the peninsula. This means much more than the 1 percent increase in population that Mr. Kadden estimates. If the developers have their way, even more units will be added. All they care about is covering every possible square foot of space with a building.

5) We all know that our roadways are already overcrowded. It can only get worse as we add more people and cars. We’ll also need more parking spots, which are already at a premium. Where will everyone park at the LIRR station?

6) Increased traffic is not the only possible negative conse-

quence. If we add more and more people, it means more garbage trucks and more room needed to store garbage. We’ll also need more water. Remember that we get all of our water from underground aquifers, some of which have already been damaged by saltwater intrusion. We do not have an unending water supply.

This is a big-picture issue—it’s not just Great Neck we’re talking about, but all of Long Island. How many more people can we reasonably fit with our limited resources?

To summarize, we’d all like to see Great Neck revitalized. What’s important is to consider what changes will actually enhance our quality of life, rather than creating new problems that can’t be fixed.

With the help of urban planning professionals, we need a coordinated plan across all villages that takes into account the needs of the diverse demographic groups on our peninsula.

Amy Glass Village of Great Neck

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Don’t drink from the developers’ Kool-Aid

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his letter is dedicated to millennials and Long Island homeowners who demand truth about responsible development.

A false statement circulated 10,000 times on social media is still a false statement.

Filling your head with false information and knowing that young people will go on social media to circulate a prodeveloper agenda is a serious form of manipulation possibly orchestrated by a desperate mayor and his deputy mayor.

These tactics appear to be part of a larger pattern of behavior disseminating false information to the uninformed public.

Misleading statements made at village meetings have appeared in print in this fine newspaper.

Propaganda aside, a smartly designed, four-story, rental building plunked into the wrong location is still the wrong construction for that location. Recently, a millennial complained, “perfectly reasonable construction of brand-new buildings is being prevented by…” I’d like to suggest there is nothing reasonable about green-lighting an inappropriate

construction for any given location. Successful urban planning is about: location, location, location.

Should a gynecologist with no urban planning background, someone who disempowered both his zoning board and planning board, be in sole control over future development decisions that could impact your home value? By reversing the approval process, the mayor first approves most everything, then sends the approved project to his boards (with narrow parameters), effectively tying their hands and limiting their veto power. The chairmen of both boards are believed to be better qualified to evaluate new construction.

As the mayor appears to be pressuring the millennials, it would seem the developers are pressuring the mayor.

Not every proposal deserves to be green-lighted. But with rare exception, it is and therein lies the problem. If the mayor could be relied on to “Vote No” when it is clearly warranted, then a “handful” of 1,400 residents wouldn’t have to participate in standing-room-only,

filled to capacity public hearings until midnight.

Responsible urban planning works towards positivity for a diverse population — a process this village rarely respects.

What about traffic, traffic, traffic? Is there anyone who disagrees that Middle Neck Road and East Shore Road are impossible to navigate past 2:30 in the afternoon? How can additional multi-story construction on Middle Neck Road be the solution?

What about integrity? Did Mayor Bral forget to mention he authorized a traffic study for questionable new construction on MNR in June when there were few vehicles on the road due to coronavirus?

Funny thing about Village of Great Neck government: no matter the absurdly oversized project approved, the environmental impact statement THEY control always concludes: No impact to traffic, no impact to population, no impact to water…

Ironically, the most ardent supporters of change are residents with little or no history of attendance at village meetings.

There is no substitute for the wealth of information available to residents by attending twicemonthly Tuesday night meetings at 7:30 p.m.

Thankfully, board of trustees meetings, which are decidedly unsexy and often uninteresting, are attended by a core of concerned residents. It is at these meetings that a project’s fire and safety hazards are identified, insufficient parking and multiple red flags are raised. The “selfish people” referred to in a Sept. 8 Opinion letter represent 1,400-plus concerned residents. Their actions are the very opposite of selfish.

It takes selflessness to care so much about the future of your community that you sacrifice three to five hours per night — attending multiple Stop Rezoning & Revitalization Public Hearings (2019) — sometimes until midnight — in Village Hall’s most uncomfortable and antiquated wooden chairs.

Selfless residents act as unpaid village watchdogs. Residents ask the tough questions that our mayor should be asking developers – but never will.

Since the pandemic, pub-

lic board of trustees meetings, zoning board meetings and planning board meetings have been available on Zoom. Have you been attending? Do you watch until the bitter end on a Tuesday or Thursday night to learn firsthand what plans are being presented to your community? This newspaper’s most frequent contributors to the Opinion column are those residents who attend regularly and are the best informed.

Summary: In the past 4 ½ years of attendance at village meetings, I have rarely heard the mayor and board apply rigid criteria for approval of new sub-divisions and multi-story construction. Instead, most every proposal receives blanket approval, despite poor location, a myriad of unanswered questions and endless red flags indicative of serious issues.

Responsible urban planning would be welcome by most taxpayers. Over-development that will sell out our community and worsen existing problems is not.

Judy Shore Rosenthal Great Neck

Trump and Hindenburg fostered instability

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nlike science, where experiments are carried out to support or refute a theory, political science has no way of finding exactly how a new political or economic systems would behave. However, it is possible to examine a political system and predict its behavior by performing a feature-byfeature similarity comparison with a past political system.

Some historians question such a comparison since no two governments, past or present, are exactly the same, but most agree that the result of such a comparison is important because it warns us about the dangers of ignoring history and its supposed lessons.

Examining history and past political systems lead us to the Paul Von Hindenburg era that seems to best represent the urrent political climate in the United States.

Paul Hindenburg was the president of Germany from 1925 to 1934. During his presidency , despite despising Hitler

and his Nazi party, Hindenburg was a key player in the political instability that eventually led to their rise in power and the appointment of Adolf Hitler as a German chancellor in January 1933, which gave the Nazi regime badly needed legitimacy.

Analysis of President Hindenburg’s government with that of President Trump’s first term has led to the following similarities: They both had an unstable administration with many crisis (during his presidency, Hindenburg had seven chancellors, three of them over a ninemonth period. Most of them ruled by decree rather than through parliamentary majorities )They both tried very hard to appease right-wing critics.

They both had some far-right advisers in their administration, at different times (in the case of Hindenburg, Franz Von Papen, who established a rightist authoritarian government in 1932, helped Hitler to become chancellor)They

both stripped away constraints on executive power.They both tried to break down the democratic principles and norms (in the case of Hindenburg, there was a gradual degradation of democracy that led to the formation of Nazi-regime) They both tried to make their political opponents a threat to law and order( in both governments the left was compared to Fascism or Communism) Both presidencies were riddled with propaganda (in the case of Hindenburg after the Nazis seizure of power in 1933, Paul Goebbels’s propaganda ministry quickly gained and exerted control over the news media. His success is often attributed to use of the same lies repeated again and again. The propaganda included seeking to change moral beliefs, attacks on the Christian churches and anti-Semitism )They both showed affection for Jewish people (one of Hindenburg’s major disagreement with Hitler was treatment of the Jews.

Jewish people overwhelmingly

voted for him even though a famous German Jewish philosopher by the name of Theodore Lessing opposed the rise of Hindenburg as president in the 1925 election because of his far-right views. He was murdered in Czechoslovakia in 1933. This was the first political assassination of an opponent of the Nazi regime outside of Germany, and received worldwide condemnation.)

It is important to note that Trump is no Hindenburg and today America is nowhere near what it was in Germany in the 1920s or 1930s. Nonetheless, white nationalist hate groups have grown significantly during the Trump era.

History has shown that when the head of a country makes mistake after mistake, it will eventually lead to disaster.

In the case of Hindenburg, if so many mistakes were not made Hitler would have not had a chance to become chancellor.

Hitler’s personality plus the fact that he was Austrian-born (a stateless immigrant living

in Germany for more than 19 years) made him unelectable in any major election in Germany back in those days. In fact, in the last election of 1932, before World War II, Hitler, who became a German citizen just weeks before, lost to Hindenburg by a big margin. Hindenburg, being a war hero and national figure, was so popular with the German public and its army that he could have legally removed Hitler from the chancellorship position anytime.

But instead he went on to give Hitler dictatorial power when he signed the Enabling Act into law . This happened after Hindenburg witnessed Nazi lawlessness, brutality and terror against mainly political opponents and the Jewish people Therefore, it was Hindenburg who contributed to the destruction of Germany and ultimately to the rest of the world that is still reverberating today.

Shahram Aziz Great Neck

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Brokers need to change with new norm Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the real estate industry being shut down fromMarch through June 9, a majority of brokers and agents have suffered financially,even though those who applied for an Economic Injury Disaster loan orPayroll Protection Plan loan (or potential grant) may have received money which surely aided in paying employees and business expenses.

But a greater number had not been able to secure any money, which added insult to financial injury in staying in business. Those who did receive money, which most likely will be turned into a grant, will not have to pay it back.

Those who have to repay their loans back to the federal government will pay up to 3.75 percent interest per annum, but that will depend on a number of variables.

The Paycheck Protection Program was a loan designed to provide a direct incentive for small businesses to keep their workers on the payroll. SBA will forgive loans if all employee retention criteria are met and the funds are used for eligible expenses. The following link can provide more indepth and complete information as far as the qualifications about the EIDL and PPP grants and loans and their required qualifications: https://www.sba.gov/sites/

default/files/2020-08/PPP%20 -%20Loan%20Forgiveness%20 FA Q s % 2 0 % 2 8 A u g u s t % 2 0 11%2C%202020%29.pdf Now back to the subject matter at hand with what is happening with agent’s income and the impact of the Covid-19’s on their success.

I can totally get it about how challenging and difficult the current market environment is for those agents who haven’t pivoted and changed their ways in doing business, from communications, showing property and most importantly learning how to hold the hands of their clients through the process.

One of my mottos (I have said this before and I will say it again a little differently) is that if you keep doing the same thing day in and day out without some crucial changes, you will get what you always get, the same results, with no improvement financially. Learning how to do business in our “new norm,” which we hope might just revert back to the “old norm” is a learning curve that must be practiced and adhered to. But don’t hold your breath for the foreseeable future I have noticed and experienced through other people’s struggles not only in the real estate industry but in many other in-

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch

dustries highly affected by lack of business, such as restaurants and the the hospitality sector as well as what the airlines have been going through.

Incomes in those industries has plummeted and understandably so from the fear and lack of confidence by consumers and not totally being comfortable with eating out, flying on planes, shopping or even staying in five-star hotels.

The answer is not so simple, but if accurate and real facts are put out, which the CDC is trying to so without being influenced in any way shape or manner, then I believe changes will occur more quickly over time. But then again which vaccine with the least amount of side effects will aid all those working or looking for

work?

Will we be protected by social distancing at least 6 feet apart, wearing masks and gloves as needed and having hand sanitizer at our disposal in our workspace? Currently, as per National Public Radio which I have found an excellent unbiased source for information in an article on May 8 about one tnird (100,000,000+) are working from home.

I think there has been a huge saving for employees as well as employers due to eliminating travel expenses, saving time for more quality production, and the ability to be with and around your children and family.

This presents some major obstacles due to children learning via computer instead of being physically present in schools and the lack of exercise that they would normally get in gym class.

There are also mental issues that have increased due to the lack of social interaction with fellow employees, the lack off exercise for adults and poorer eating habits resulting in poorer health.

Earning an income in real estate today in this “new norm” requires a superior mentor as well as a receptive agent who is open to new ideas and concepts to either train or retrain what used to function well when meeting clients at

properties (if allowed in).

This would lead to accepted offers, inspections, a contract, an appraisal, and then hopefully a closing. To me it’s an “about-face” and what was successful nine months ago back in January of this year may not necessarily work in the same fashion today.

So much has changed with respect to incomes in our industry for a majority of those who weren’t earning a lot to begin with, but now either must retool their thinking and training or leave the business. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average real estate agent earns $45,990 each year, but the range in income is massive.

One-tenth of real estate agents earned less than $23,000, and 10 percent earned more than $110,000 in 2019; but I have read statistics that up to 24 percent of agents earn over $100,000, which I do not believe is accurate and true. I am continuing to research as to what the average will be in 2020 and I am quite positive that incomes for the majority will be way down. One of the main reasons I have mentioned is not going with the flow and changing the way one does business.

I, for instance, cannot complain and am having an excellent year even though sales for many are down due to the lack of inventory but prices are up. It’s how we approach the “changed market environment” and what we do in our marketing that truly has made a marked difference. I believe if more agents, as well as others in business, adapted to these changes, success can and would be attained. My registered copyright S.A.C.E.D.S. and how we practice and utilize that concept today more than ever has increased our return on investment. If you are curious and want to know what that is and how we practice it, give me a call!

Philip A. Raices is the owner/ Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite180 in Great Neck. He has earned designations as a Graduate of the RealtorInstitute (G.R.I.) and also as a Certified International Property Specialist (C.I.P.S).Just email or snail mail (regular mail) him with your ideas on future columns with your name, email, and cell number and he will call or email you back. For a consultation, he can be reached by cell: (516) 647-4289 or by email: Phil@ TurnKeyRealEstate.Com to answer any of your questions or concerns.

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Recent Real Estate Sales in the

Willistons

394 Titus Way, East Williston

187 Charles Street, East Williston

3 bd, 2 ba, 1,500 sqft, Sold on: 8/11/20, Sold Price: $780,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: East Williston

3 bd, 1.5 ba, 1,905 sqft, Sold on: 7/19/20, Sold Price: $800,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: East Williston

119 Sheridan Avenue, Williston Park

178 Park Avenue, Williston Park

6 bd, 2 ba, 2,058 sqft, Sold on: 9/3/20, Sold Price: $665,000 Type: Multi Family, Schools: Mineola

3 bd, 2 ba, 1,300 sqft, Sold on: 7/28/20, Sold Price: $590,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Herricks

Editor’s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in New Hyde Park, the Willistons, Mineola and surrounding areas by a variety of real estate agencies.

This information about the home and the photos were obtained through the Zillow.com. The homes are presented solely based on the fact that they were recently sold in New Hyde Park, the Willistons, Mineola and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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W.P. resident allegedly an agent for China Continued from Page 1 one consulate cellphone at least 53 times from 2014 to 2017, according to court documents.

One of the consulates, Deck said, was believed to be assigned to a subdivision of China’s United Front Work Department, responsible for “neutralizing sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of the [People’s Republic of China].”

Tibet, according to the court documents, is an “autonomous region” in China, historically home to ethnic Tibetans and the spiritual home of Tibetan Buddhism. Since 1951, when China occupied Tibet, a Tibetan independence movement for political separation from China has been present throughout the region, according to the documents. Thousands of ethnic Tibetans were believed to have been killed during periods of martial law and repression throughout the region, according to the documents.

Angwang, according to court documents, was assigned to the 111th Precinct in Queens and served as a patrol officer and a member of the precinct’s crime prevention team. He was also employed by the U.S. Army Reserve as a staff sergeant stationed in Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Angwang allegedly used his position PHOTO COURTESY OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE in the Police Department to provide the consulates access to senior poA member of the NYPD and a Williston Park resident is charged with serv- Chinese lice officials through invitations to official ing as an illegal agent to the People’s Republic of China, according to the NYPD events, according to the docuU.S. Department of Justice. ments.

Deck said neither of the activities fell within the scope of Angwang’s duties and responsibilities for either the NYPD or the U.S. Army Reserve.

“Had background investigators been aware of the full extent of Angwang’s contact with foreign government officials, Angwang would not have maintained his secret security clearance with the Department of Defense,” the complaint read.

Angwang also allegedly lied by denying he had contacts with foreign government officials or consulates on an electronically submitted background investigation form.

“As alleged in this federal complaint, Baimadajie Angwang violated every oath he took in this country,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said. “One to the United States, another to the U.S. Army, and a third to this Police Department.”

“State and local officials should be aware that they are not immune to the threat of Chinese espionage,” John C. Demers, assisant attorney general for national security, said in a statement.

“Our police departments provide for our public safety and are often the first line of defense against the national security threats our country faces. We will continue to work with our state and local partners to protect our nation’s great police departments.”

Efforts to reach a family member of Angwang’s or his attorney for comment were unavailing.

Nassau man files reassessment complaint Continued from Page 2 Of the 227,475 residential grievances filed on the 2020-21 tentative assessment roll, the commission made 60,760 reductions of Class 1 properties, according to officials. Last year, officials said, 175,067 residential reductions were made.

According to figures provided by county officials, during the eight-year frozen assessment roll period, the county reduced approximately one million residential cases while one-half of property owners were “unfairly subsidizing the other half.”

Nassau County residents Eric Berliner, Robert Fine, Michael Aryeh and Jill Pesce individually and on behalf of all other homeowners directly affected by the reassess-

ment filed a complaint about the 2018 tax reassessment against the county, the Department of Assessment, Curran and Moog on April 30, 2019.

The four residents are represented by Herrick Feinstein LLP, a Manhattan law firm.

According to court filings, the plaintiffs alleged that the reassessment violated federal due process and equal protection clauses, and did not use accurate factors and market values.

As a result, the plaintiffs claimed that the reassessment yielded inaccurate results and could potentially lead to higher taxes for hundreds of thousands of county homeowners, according to Scott Mollen, an attorney representing the plaintiffs and a partner

at Herrick Feinstein.

“The county made a motion to dismiss the entire case and the court has denied the county’s motion with respect to almost every one of our causes of action,” Mollen said. “The court also granted our motion to proceed as a class action.”

Nassau County Supreme Court Judge Stephen A. Buscaria denied a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against the county and its Department of Assessment.

According to court filings, the county argued that “the plaintiffs do not have standing to challenge the reassessment of residential real property in the county.”

The initial complaint claimed the county’s reassessment method “was performed

in an extremely rushed manner, during an unreasonably short period of time, under a veil of secrecy, and with the utilization of undisclosed software, modeling, algorithms, undisclosed protocols and the socalled ‘neighborhood factors.’”

The plaintiffs claim that the use of neighborhood factors was another means by which the market value could be manipulated, according to the lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, the neighborhood factor was designated as between 0.6 and 1.9 and was then used to either decrease or increase assessed values.

The lawsuit states that Nassau’s assessors improperly used comparative sales when conducting the assessment.

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State suspends Toku’s liquor license Continued from Page 1 maximum occupancy of 90, under the Department of Health’s indoor guidelines. About 67 patrons were in the outside dining area, which has a maximum occupancy of 32. Numerous patrons were also observed buying drinks from the bar without food and taking them outside to consume.

Businesses found in violation of COVID-19 regulations face fines up to $10,000 per violation, while egregious violations can result in the immediate suspension of a bar or restaurant’s liquor license. A total of 201 restaurants and bars across the state have had their liquor licenses revoked for similar reasons since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Toku, which opened in 2007, is owned by Poll Restaurants, which is headed by brothers George and Gillis Poll. The company also owns and operates other restaurants on the North Shore, including Hendrick’s Tavern and Bryant & Cooper in Roslyn, Bar Frites in Greenvale, and Cipollini, also located in the Americana.

The revoking of Toku’s liquor license is only the latest development to befall a Poll restaurant. In April, a former Bryant & Cooper employee was charged with embezzling from the steakhouse, and in June a fight broke out in the outdoor dining area in Cipollini. The company has yet to comment on either incident.

Efforts to reach Poll Restaurants and the Americana Manhasset for comment were unavailing.

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Toku Modern Asian saw its liquor license revoked for multiple COVID-19 safety violations.

Plan to turn Coliseum into music venue only Continued from Page 4 The county, as part of the agreement, preserved its 2019 development plan agreement with the Coliseum’s new tenant and developer RXR Realty to transform the currently paved Nassau Hub. County officials granted Nassau Live a “standstill period” of 60 days with a potential 30-day extension to provide a more comprehensive plan for sustained Coliseum operations and a request for rent adjustment under the lease. The county agreed not to issue any notices of default for a lack of rent payment under

Nassau Live.

In 2015, Mastroianni’s company U.S. Immigration Fund oversaw a $100 million loan for the renovation of the Coliseum from 200 Chinese investors. This was made possible through a federal program that provides people with visas in exchange for financing projects that create domestic job opportunities. The immigration fund is not affiliated with the federal government.

“Our plans are to take control, further the development plans with RXR [Realty] and work with the county to reactivate

the arena,” Mastroianni told Newsday.

Curran, an Islanders fan, previously expressed disappointment in Onexim for deciding to surrender its lease. Last week she said she was encouraged that Nassau Live stepped in to preserve the team’s chances of playing a final season in the Coliseum before beginning a new chapter at newly named UBS Arena, which is under construction at Belmont Park.

“We’ve made sure our Islanders can come home to Nassau for one final season at the Barn while continuing all the momentum we’ve built with our commu-

nity partners on a reimagined Hub that would drive our economy and benefit our residents for generations to come,” Curran said. “Our vision for the project as a live-work-play destination anchored by a medical research and innovation district is even more important now, following the COVID-19 public health crisis.”

Islanders co-owner Jon Ledecky has said he was “1,000 percent” confident the Islanders will play the 2020-21 season at the Coliseum before making the move to UBS Arena in Belmont beginning in 2021-22.

Jojo returns to Roslyn with pop-up gallery Continued from Page 10 Anavim’s modern style is encapsulated in his favorite piece in the Roslyn popup gallery. The 48×60 work comprises his entire 1990s experience, featuring images of a Nintendo 64 controller, Fruit Stripe gum, a TV showing Nickelodeon’s “Double Dare,” a ticket stub for a Smashing Pumpkins concert, and, in tribute to his first canvases, a composition book meant for math lessons but adorned with sketches and stickers.

“It really feels to me like I’ve transported myself back to 1996 or something like that with this,” Anavim said. “It’s just one year, it’s just a culmination of this blurry thing that I remember from late middle school, early high school.”

After a successful decade creating mixed media art, Anavim says he was mostly unprepared for the widespread change that COVID-19 would bring.

“At the start of the year, I was in the city, I was kind of just had my head down and was focusing on everything in Manhattan,” Anavim said. “And then we were all kind of locked down. We were all in our own heads and just trying to see, is at the end of the world, what’s gonna end

up happening over here? That I didn’t really know, no one really knew.”

He adds that the pandemic also served as a “wake-up call” for him.

“It was kind of a time to zoom out, let’s see what’s really important,” Anavim said. “Let’s take a look at our lives. What were we consumed with as far as our day-to-day activities? And was that really worth all of what we’re doing now when this illusion of certainty can be suspended indefinitely.”

The “call” came in the months immediately following Manhattan becoming a COVID-19 epicenter, when Anavim returned to his parents’ home to quarantine.

“We just did simple things like meeting on a Tuesday afternoon at 3 p.m. and walking in the village of Roslyn or taking a ride out to Oyster Bay, just the simple things,” Anavim said. “Personally, I was taking it for granted, maybe I wasn’t even taking it at all, it was almost an afterthought. Before, I thought, OK, I’ve been there, what’s next? And then I came back, and I looked at it in this completely new lens. And it’s just so lovely, and so charming. There are just so many differ-

ent facets to Roslyn.”

Over and over on his walks through the village, Anavim noticed that a space that used to house the pioneering farmto-table restaurant Friend of a Farmer had been abandoned for 15 years. He adds that his mother, Ladan, was instrumental in getting him to open the gallery.

“I had this loose idea, like, oh, that’d be a cool place,” Anavim said. “It was kind of an afterthought like everything else – put it to the list and it’ll collect dust for years. And then my mom was the one that really kind of said, ‘Hey, what about that place? What about this place? Have you called that guy yet?’ And I said, all right, I’ll call him, and now I’m very happy that I did.”

Anavim contacted the property’s landlord and “made a little agreement” to rent for three months, with the option of a year. He says he has returned to Manhattan, but stays with his parents once or twice a week for gallery work, and his mother “moonlights” at the gallery each week.

“I’m in the middle of those three months, right now, and we’re gonna see what ends up happening, but it’s gener-

ally been a very positive experience,” Anavim said. “The town is just so lovely.”

While he’s glad he has his gallery, Anavim says he knows fellow creatives who can’t work at their music venues or hold their showings in the pandemic.

“It’s a very tough time,” Anavim said.

“But what I do know is this: The worst thing for an artist’s creativity is the status quo, things just going as they were doesn’t spark any new ideas, doesn’t spark new creativity. One thing that I think is the silver lining specifically, and especially for creatives, is that this undoubtedly will spark a new era of creation, new bodies of work, it will inspire the artists and viewers to see things in a different way.

“I know that we’re going to look back 5, 10, 20 years from now at the work that was created this time, and it will, in my view, probably come to define a generation. So that I know it’s hard for some people to digest that now, because the bills are not going to get paid by saying what’s going to happen in 20 years, but that’s it. These are what spark the most radical change when it comes to the way that we look at things.”

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State’s financial hole now $3.2B: DiNapoli Continued from Page 20 The comptroller released an analysis of cities and counties that had been given federal funding and the percentage of those funds that had been spent; Nassau County topped the list, having spent nearly all of its federal assistance.

Ninety percent of that spending was on payroll for public health and safety employees. New York City was second, with large parts of its federal funds going to payroll and “public health medical expenses.”

“Targeting aid to the communities that suffered the worst from the outbreak would have been more prudent than basing the distribution of funds on the population,” DiNapoli said. “As a result, regions like New York City and Long Island are facing significant budget shortfalls.”

DiNapoli said if funds had been distributed based on COVID-19 cases instead of census data 46 localities including Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk counties would have received an additional $4 billion in federal assistance.

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Days of awe, days of action Continued from Page 17 and a fatal stabbing at a rabbi’s home in Rockland during a Hanukkah celebration, according to the Anti-Defamation League. It marked a 12 percent rise from 1,879 incidents in 2018, Reuters reported.

The concern over the rise in antiSemitic hate crimes is so great that Nassau County has announced increased police security during the High Holy Days.

Jewish tradition teaches that saving even one life is like saving the world. By that count, Trump, with his callous indifference to death by COVID-19 (another 200,000 are expected to die by December), climate catastrophe, gun violence or police brutality, has destroyed an almost infinite number of worlds. And he is doing his best to destroy this one.

Trump has politicized even the simple, inexpensive action of wearing a mask that can save 100,000 of those 200,000 lives by December, as being somehow taking away “liberty.”

His consigliere William Barr has said that lockdowns for the sake of public health, are akin to slavery. How does

that square with “examining our relationships with people.”

These concepts are an assault on the Jewish values which we pray about and measure ourselves against during these Days of Awe, when we recite the Unataneh Tokef prayer and take to heart, “On Rosh Hashanah it is written; on Yom Kippur it is sealed, who shall live and who shall die.”

During these Days of Awe, we reflect on our own mortality and our place in the world. We are called upon to examine our lives, our relationships with people, and through these examinations, turn towards God. Fundamental to our Jewish tradition is justice. “’Tzedek, tzedek, tirdof’ – ‘Justice, justice shall you pursue.’ Those words are ever-present reminders of what judges must do that they may thrive,” Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said.

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg epitomized everything we hold dear about the law; she was a role model for so many of us women lawyers and judges, and she was truly a trailblazer in the fight for equality and justice for all,” writes Ellen

Rosenblum, Oregon’s first female Attorney General. “She always gave us hope that the Rule of Law would prevail.

“To say she will be missed is an understatement. I am devastated by the loss of a giant. In our shared Jewish tradition, a person who dies on Rosh Hashanah is a tzaddik, a person of great righteousness.

“In the Jewish tradition, we also say, Zichrona Livrocho, ‘May her memory be a blessing,’ which essentially means may her life inspire us to do and be better. May true justice prevail,” Rosenblum writes.

What an affront to the “Notorious RBG’s memory and her legacy and her lifetime of sacrifice and public service how Trump and the Republicans are ramrodding through a Trumpolite for a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, determined to reverse what little progress has been made in the past 250 years for social justice, political justice, economic justice, environmental justice.

What is also Jewish tradition – learned through horrific experience – is that silence is complicity. Our tradition demands that we act.

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Continued from Page 16 The active ingredient in RoundUp, a chemical called glyphosate, has been linked not only to an array of human illnesses including cancer, microbiome and reproductive problems, but also to the decline of honeybees and monarch butterflies. Residues of glyphosate are now found in many common foods that are made with GM ingredients, like corn, soy and sugar beets and because of its widespread use, even non-GMO crops have been contaminated with this chemical. It is estimated that 93% of Americans have glyphosate in their bodies.

Exploitive and extractive agriculture is also evident in the production of meat for human consumption, which is

responsible for the destruction of much of the rainforest in South America, as land is cleared for cattle grazing to supply our meat-dependent diets. Largescale pork farms known as Concentrated Animal Feed Operations, or CAFOs, are responsible for hundreds of millions of tons of animal waste annually that contaminate rivers and streams and even sources of drinking water.

The good news is that a new paradigm for agriculture is taking hold around the world. “Regenerative Agriculture” is an organic farming and grazing technique that eschews chemical inputs and extractive farming techniques and instead rebuilds soils and restores soil biodiversity. Regenerative agriculture recognizes the ability of nature to

close the carbon cycle, improve crop resilience and increase nutrient density.

This, in turn, can increase waterholding capacity and sequester carbon at greater depths, thus reducing climate-damaging levels of carbon dioxide. Pollution is effectively reduced to zero, and the impact on the environment is beneficial rather than detrimental.

Food production is responsible for about one quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, but historically, agriculture has responded to humanity’s greatest challenges. And here it is, another great challenge to be met. We can help by keeping in mind our “food “ footprint as we shop for and prepare our meals.

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Northwell Health helps to stay safe at the gym Gyms and fitness centers are reopening, much to the glee of gym-goers across the North Shore. But even though these facilities will operate at 33 percent capacity, workout enthusiasts are urged to practice safety measures to protect against the coronavirus.

Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care’s Christina Belitsky, an advanced practitioner lead, says gym-goers should implement new habits into their workout routines.

“Exercise does wonders for our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing,” Ms. Belitsky said. “But just like our form must be right with every exercise we do, our steps toward safety must be mindful each time we visit the gym.”

Strategies for protecting against COVID-19 at the gym are simple, yet essential.

“Wipe down your machine before you use it and be sure it is fully air dried before touching it, wipe the machine down again after use,” Ms. Belitsky said. “Be sure to wash your

hands regularly and do not touch your face.”

And, she said, “if you usually bring your personal towel to the gym — don’t. You will only rest it on a piece of equipment and then use it to wipe your face or hands and ultimately could spread infection. Instead, use disposable paper towels.”

Belitsky recommends these guidelines.

Ask the gym about its coronavirus-prevention policies, including equipment cleaning, whether clients are screened before entrance and ventilation protocols.Maintain social distance.Wear a mask as much as possible. “Do what you can,” Belitsky said. “This is a new practice, but wearing the mask is paramount to not only your safety but other gym-goers’ safety.”Exercise outdoors if possible.Bring anti-microbial wipes for wiping down high-touch surfaces such as exercise equipment.Change and shower at home rather than at the locker room to avoid unnecessary exposure.

As gyms reopen, testing for COVID-19 in a Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care location remains straightforward. Patients are encouraged to schedule a Virtual Visit for evaluation and then arrange for testing at a nearby Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care center if warranted.

Patients can also visit Gohealthuc.com/nyc to book an in-person visit to any Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care center through the convenient Save a Spot scheduling system or just walk into any Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care for an evaluation to determine if a COVID-19 test is clinically

appropriate.

Most Northwell HealthGoHealth Urgent Care locations are open extended hours from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on weekends and are open all holidays – 365 days a year. For more information, visit gohealthuc.com.

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Santos offers sharp contrast with Suozzi Continued from Page 20 “I did get some evidence that I might be wrong, and it might have benefited a large portion of the district, but I really need to continue the research that we’re doing,” Santos said.

Also high on Santos’ list of priorities is infrastructure, which he says was brought further to public attention with the chaos of Tropical Storm Isaias in August.

“Tropical Storm Isaias was a great example of how poor our infrastructure, our electrical grid in Long Island is and how much work it needs and Congressman Suozzi refuses to address that, aside from sending a letter requesting an investigation into LIPA to Attorney General Letitia James,” Santos said.

“That’s an appropriate start, but for four years and zero infrastructure requests, even though we saw what Sandy, Irene and every other massive

storm that hit the North Shore and South Shore of Long Island has done to our electrical grid, so sure, we can launch investigations all we want. But we need to update the infrastructure, carry it. It’s unacceptable.”

Filings dated June 30 from the Federal Election Commission state that Santos’ campaign has $73,355.64 in cash on hand, a fraction of the Suozzi campaign’s $1,925,072.87.

Santos said the difference does not worry him.

“Suozzi lost his [Nassau County] executive race with $2 million in the bank, because he was an arrogant individual and we all saw that,” Santos said.

“Arrogant in the sense of, he didn’t want to spend the money, he aspired for higher offices.”

The candidate described Suozzi’s two terms in the House as “silent, complacent and ineffective.”

“He’s accomplished nothing,” Santos said. “There’s just nothing that’s changed or bet-

tered the lives of the people of New York’s 3rd or people in this country as a whole, that came from Congressman Suozzi.

He’s very keen on photo ops and co-sponsoring bills that go nowhere because he knows they’re going to go nowhere.

He’s trying to put a Band-Aid on a wound he created when he completely went ludicrous and gave Nassau County a 23% tax hike in order to ‘fix’ the financial issues of the county. And now he’s trying to blame that on the SALT deduction.”

Kim Devlin, a senior adviser for the Suozzi campaign, responded to the comments in a statement to Blank Slate Media.

“Tom is running on his record of getting things done by working across party lines,” Devlin said. “He has fought for and won billions of dollars of COVID aid, increased funding for Long Island Sound by 500 percent and brought additional federal funding to clean up the Navy Grumman Plume. He has

worked tirelessly to improve Northport’s VA Center, repeal the SALT tax deduction, and expand affordable health care and lower drug prices. His opponent will keep making silly and false charges while Tom will keep working for his constituents.”

As for the abortion issue, Santos, who says he grew up in a “religious household,” said that should he be in office for an overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court and should legislation toward banning abortion be put before the House, he knows how he would vote and would be in favor of criminal charges for doctors who performed abortions if outlawed.

“If it is set down for legislation that we’re going to ban abortion in the United States and I’m given an opportunity to vote, in that case, I will vote to support the ban of abortion in the United States,” Santos said.

He added that as a New

York conservative, he tends to be “more fiscally conservative but socially liberal,” and that he opposes the Green New Deal, a universal income and Medicare for All. “Now I’m totally in favor of paying for, you know, our own health care expenses, and I don’t expect the federal government nor the local government to pay the cost,” Santos said. “But don’t tell me that you have a health care plan that’s comprehensive for everybody you need when you’re removing the old policy, such as the terminally ill patients who were afforded the human decency of having end of life care without having to worry about money.”

The candidate said that there is an element to his campaign that’s more important than money. “What’s very important in politics is a message that resonates with the constituents,” Santos said. “And I think we have the right message.”

Suozzi, Dem leadership at odds of aid plan Continued from Page 20 “This bipartisan proposal helps people, blunts the advance of the virus, and provides the necessary funding for our schools, and our state and local governments,” Suozzi said. “In our negotiations, we got 25 Republicans to agree to state and local aid, something that is of the utmost importance to me.

As Democrats, we had to compromise as well.”

While Suozzi and other Problem Solvers Caucus members believe the proposal will adequately address the essential needs of localities throughout the nation, various committee chairs throughout the House of Representatives felt the proposal was lacking.

“When it comes to bolstering the public health system, supporting state and local governments, and assisting struggling families, the Problem Solvers’ proposal leaves too many needs unmet,” according to a statement released by the House Appropriations Committee. “With the general election just 49 days away and the Postal Service sabotaged by the Trump administration, their proposal also abandons our responsibility to protect the life of our democracy.”

Suozzi said he has listened to his constituents and their

concerns and touted the bipartisan efforts the caucus has demonstrated by drafting the proposal.

“The coronavirus recovery has been uneven,” Suozzi said.

“Some folks are fine. Others have no job to go back to, many restaurants and catering halls are still floundering, there is no nationwide testing or tracing protocol, rents go unpaid, school districts are about to lay off teachers, municipalities are about to lay off police, and so much more – the Senate must come to the table and make a deal.”

Suozzi and U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City) met with Nassau County Executive Laura Curran last week to call upon the federal government to provide financial relief to communities throughout Long Island and the nation due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Senate Democrats blocked a Republican-backed coronavirus relief bill that came with a price tag around $500 billion, 52-47. The proposed legislation, according to Suozzi, did not provide sufficient financial aid to states, counties, localities and schools.

“Everyday folks need help,” Suozzi said at a news conference. “The Senate’s current proposal is laughable as it contains

zero relief for state and local governments. That is a nonstarter. We need to get beyond partisanship and work together to find some common ground.

This is about real people’s lives.”

Rice praised Curran’s efforts to steer Nassau County through the pandemic but said it was “completely outrageous” for her to do it with the financial amount that was allocated to the county.

“Mayors in the county have also made it very clear: without federal aid, they will be forced to cut back programs and services in education, transportation, infrastructure and other vital areas,” Rice said. “It is shameful that it has come to this point. The House passed the Heroes Act back in May to provide nearly $1 trillion for state and local governments, yet Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans failed to act and are still proposing no new federal aid despite the urgency of this crisis.”

“Refusing to fund state and local governments during a historic crisis will hurt Long Island with more job losses, businesses closing, and gutting of essential services needed more than ever,” Curran said. “We did our part throughout this crisis.

Our frontline responders made

enormous sacrifices. Hear us now.”

Lorraine Deller, executive director for the Nassau-Suffolk School Boards Association, said it is imperative for schools to receive federal aid so budgets and resources do not have to be slashed even more than they already have been.

“As Long Island schools tackle the challenges of reopening in a safe, secure, and educationally sound environment this week, they are doing so under an additional burden and that is the withholding of their state aid payments,” Deller said.

The news conference was held nearly four months after the House of Representatives passed the Heroes Act, which includes a special fund of $49 billion provided to states based on a “rate of infection.” Suozzi said he estimates the legislation would generate $10 billion to $12 billion for New York residents.

“New York state would get about $22 billion overall based on population and unemployment rates, but $12 billion is just from this special fund for $49 billion that I helped to advocate for,” Suozzi said in a May interview with Blank Slate Media.

Additionally, the act would eliminate the cap on the federal

tax deduction for state and local taxes, an action sought by Suozzi and U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York).

“When it comes to SALT, if you think Long Islanders needed and deserved this money before the coronavirus took hold, the stakes are even higher now because the cap is costing this community tens of thousands of dollars they could be using amid the crisis,” Schumer said.

The Restoring Tax Fairness for States and Localities Act, sponsored by Suozzi, would increase the tax deduction for state and local taxes in 2019 to $20,000 for individuals filing a joint tax return if the adjusted gross income of the taxpayer does not exceed $100 million.

The act would also eliminate the current $10,000 cap on the deduction in 2020 and 2021 except for taxpayers whose adjusted gross income exceeds $100 million.

Also featured in the Heroes Act is $87.5 billion allocated to municipalities with more than 500,000 residents and $37.5 billion for municipalities with less than 50,000 residents.

“Today we are sounding an alarm,” Suozzi said. “The Senate’s four months of inaction will crush our schools, our law enforcement, our state, and our local governments.”

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JCC announces 2020-21 lineup for events Sid Jacobson JCC is proud to present its Author Breakfast + Book Signing Series 2020-2021 lineup. From Oct. 8, through April 22, the JCC will virtually host five of today’s best-selling writers including Joan Lunden, Rachel Beanland, Jan Eliasberg, Darin Strauss, and Charles Belfoure. Tickets for the full series are now on sale at sjjcc.org/culturalarts.

“The 2020-2021 Author Breakfast + Book Signing Series will look different than years past,” says Elyse Ingber, Director of Performance + Visual Arts, Sid Jacobson JCC. “Our shift to a virtual series brings the stories of these best-selling writers, told straight from their mouths, to the comfort of our attendees’ homes.

We are so excited to offer this new experience!”

The 2020-2021 Author

Breakfast + Book Signing Series will kick off on Thursday, October 8 with Joan Lunden, author of Why Did I Come Into This Room?

The writer and acclaimed broadcast journalist will discuss her most candid and revealing book yet, delving into the various phases of aging with wit and humor.

Completing the 2020 portion of the series is American author Rachel Beanland who will discuss her debut novel, Florence Adler Swims Forever, a saga following the Adler family in Atlantic City in 1934, on Thursday, Nov. 5.

The series will continue in 2021 on Thursday, Feb. 4, with Jan Eliasberg, author of Hannah’s War, an unforgettable love story during the final months of World War II, followed by author Darin Strauss discussing his fictional read The Queen of Tuesday, on Thursday, March 4.

The series will conclude with New York Times bestselling author Charles Belfoure on Thursday, April 22, discussing his historical fiction The Faberge Secret.

All programs begin at 10:30 am. Tickets are now on sale for the series of five $100 members/$125 nonmembers, the two fall programs $50 members/$60 nonmembers, the three spring programs $75 members,$90 nonmembers, and individual programs $30 members//$35 nonmembers.

To purchase tickets or to read full descriptions of the authors and their novels, visit sjjcc.org/ culturalarts. For more information about the virtual 2020-2021 Author Breakfast + Book Signing Series, contact Elyse Ingber, Director of Visual + Performance Arts at 516.484.1545 ext. 144 or eingber@sjjcc.org.

Harvest Maze by Temple Judea meets Weekends Moonlight challenges of ‘Tashlich’ in Queens in Queens Harvest Weekends begin Oct. 3 through Oct. 25 showcasing fall on the farm. Queens Farm gate admission is free so that visitors can enjoy wandering the grounds to see the fall foliage and scoop up their pumpkins from the farm’s Pumpkin Patch.

The farm also features hayrides, its seasonal farmstand with a variety of Hudson Valley apples, donuts, fresh cider and apple pies for a taste of New York!

The farm store sells seasonal mums, locally-made jams and honey. Activities are priced separately. All proceeds support the care and operations of the historic farm.

Harvest Weekends run Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 3 through Oct. 25 and Monday, Oct. 12, from 11:00 am – 4:30 pm.

Queens Farm’s Maze by Moonlight Details and COVID visitor guidelines at adds a new element of challenge to the queensfarm.org. maze experience.

Somehow the rustling of the corn and the crickets seem amplified as darkness sets in. Maze by Moonlight is open exclusively on Saturday, Oct. 3 and Oct. 24 from 5:30-9:30 pm. For COVID visitor guidelines, see queensfarm.org.

Online Tickets Only: $15/$10 (ages 4 -12) ticket link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/maze-by-moonlight-tickets-92264211741

Tashlich is a Biblical rite which is a commandment to people to “cast off all their sins into the depths of the sea” (Micah7:20). Through this ritual, we express not only our desire to be forgiven for past misdeeds, but also our continuing hope to be free from sin in the future.

Temple Judea partnering with Temple Tikvah, created a well thought out and creative service; social distancing guidelines were adhered to, which allowed those attending to observe the traditions of the holiday while remaining safe.

Congregants of both temples gathered in their own cars and parked in Temple Judea’s spacious parking lot at prescribed locations. Masks were required and the participants remained in their cars until the final moments of actually casting their sins into the water.

The traditional “running waters” were a line of ten backyard pools, distant from each other, allowing

the congregants to safely perform this ancient rite.

Rabbi Todd Chizner of Temple Judea then blew the traditional shofar. Thanks to an elaborate audio reinforcement system, the congregants could hear not only the

prayers and songs of the service but also the blowing of the shofar, all through their car radios.

It was surely a challenge that was met with great success thanks to modern-day techniques and human inventiveness.

Rabbi Todd Chizner blows the traditional shofar.

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